Thanksgiving with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Thanksgiving
with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
This
Thanksgiving, let us take our holiday celebration and raise it to heights we
never imagined possible, to crowning heights, to crowning storms, to even
making saints proud. Our energy, our emotion, our laughter, and our joy will
cry out and inspire all, with a resolution to never abandon our friends,
family, or our sisters at Alpha Kappa Alpha Alpha Kappa Alpha apparel.
We
all know the lesson: A tribe divided against itself will never survive. Yet as
humanity we continue to fissure our different opinions and goals within race, gender,
religion, and sexuality. Good luck as we fight to take back Thanksgiving dinner
and our family values of integrity and celebration.
As
we share Thanksgiving with our cousins, and relatives, and the people we've
never met, we have the chance to share our Thanksgiving with all. What might we
bring to the table? What might we look for at the table? What would we like to
see from the new family AKA Headrest Covers?
We
celebrate with our kin, and we step up, to never ever let another Thanksgiving
come across as lacking. To never even consider the idea of "what if?"
What if there were more people in the world as we are; what if we had not
fought as hard as we fought? We may have been quiet for a little while, or we
may have turned a deaf ear, maybe even forgetting the other person completely,
yet we have the opportunity to step up and stand with all that we are, and all
that we want, to never ever let another day come by without giving it our best
effort, to never, ever let another day slip through our fingers and turn into a
disappointment aka
Fleece Blanket.
Let
us become about this moment, not waiting to always "lean in" on
others. Let us become about each other because when we do, and when we reach
our highest peak together, we won't be standing side by side, we will be
standing on equal footing, ready to compete, to contest, to win!
At
the dawn of Thanksgiving in America, the pilgrims, fleeing British tyranny,
nearly 200 in number, gathered on the Potomac River, near Alexandria, Virginia
to honor the sacred connection between they and their Native American hosts AKA License Plate
Frame.
Like
the pilgrims who came down the river, we came down the river to the promise of
America. Like those who fought the British, we have since fought our way to the
realization of freedom, liberty, and justice aka keychain.
Now,
with the spirit of Thanksgiving in our hearts, we come together as one family,
under the loving banner of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Happy
Thanksgiving to you, your family and friends.
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