Dialogue...
Faux-tep: "So are you, Mr. Kappa Man, Black or are you Greek?"
Hobbs: "Clearly I am Black, and I am a member of a predominantly Black "Greek Lettered Organization."
Faux-tep: "But I'm saying tho, my Brotha, are you Black or are you Greek?"
Hobbs: "Let me ask you, Brotha, are you Black or are you Roman?"
Faux-tep: "Roman? You trippin', the blood of Africa runs through these veins..."
Hobbs: "I feel you...Ditto...but both your Anglicized name, 'Clarence,' and adopted name of 'Kemet Allah,' are spelled in English with letters that were derived from Roman letters. Roman letters that were an amalgamation of Phoenician, Etruscan, Greek and Egyptian scripts that made its way to Great Britain during the height of the Roman Empire, when Latin was THE dominant world language. Later, these letters were exported to the world writ large due to the British Empire that spanned the entire globe, and the Trans-Atlantic slave trading of our ancestors. Last, even the appellation "Africa" that denotes our shared mother continent arrived in modern English from, you guessed it, the very Latin that the Ancient Romans spoke."
Faux-tep: "Pssh, bruh, you trippin'..."
Hobbs: "Not trippin', just building! So, just as your Anglicized names that are spelled in English with letters derived from the Ancient Romans do not make you Roman or Phoenician, my membership in a Black 'Greek LETTERED Organization' does not make me Greek.'"
Faux-tep: "So are you, Mr. Kappa Man, Black or are you Greek?"
Hobbs: "Clearly I am Black, and I am a member of a predominantly Black "Greek Lettered Organization."
Faux-tep: "But I'm saying tho, my Brotha, are you Black or are you Greek?"
Hobbs: "Let me ask you, Brotha, are you Black or are you Roman?"
Faux-tep: "Roman? You trippin', the blood of Africa runs through these veins..."
Hobbs: "I feel you...Ditto...but both your Anglicized name, 'Clarence,' and adopted name of 'Kemet Allah,' are spelled in English with letters that were derived from Roman letters. Roman letters that were an amalgamation of Phoenician, Etruscan, Greek and Egyptian scripts that made its way to Great Britain during the height of the Roman Empire, when Latin was THE dominant world language. Later, these letters were exported to the world writ large due to the British Empire that spanned the entire globe, and the Trans-Atlantic slave trading of our ancestors. Last, even the appellation "Africa" that denotes our shared mother continent arrived in modern English from, you guessed it, the very Latin that the Ancient Romans spoke."
Faux-tep: "Pssh, bruh, you trippin'..."
Hobbs: "Not trippin', just building! So, just as your Anglicized names that are spelled in English with letters derived from the Ancient Romans do not make you Roman or Phoenician, my membership in a Black 'Greek LETTERED Organization' does not make me Greek.'"