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Black Frat Inducts Bill Clinton as Honorary Member
AP Report ^ | July 10th 2009

Posted on 07/10/2009 8:39:52 PM PDT by Steelfish

Black Frat Inducts Bill Clinton as Honorary Member

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS July 10, 2009

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A historically black fraternity has voted to induct former President Bill Clinton as an honorary member.

Phi Beta Sigma President Paul Griffin Jr. said Friday that Clinton is the first U.S. president to be inducted into a historically black fraternity.

The fraternity voted Tuesday for Clinton's induction at its 95th Anniversary Conclave in New Orleans, La.

Stevie Wonder, Al Roker, the Rev. Al Sharpton and jazz musician Ramsey Lewis are also honorary members of Phi Beta Sigma.

The fraternity was founded in 1914 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. It has more than 150,000 alumni and college members in about 500 chapters throughout the U.S., Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billclinton; blackfrat; blackpresident; blackstudents; clinton; phibetasigma
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1 posted on 07/10/2009 8:39:52 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

why not? he was, after all, America’s first black president


2 posted on 07/10/2009 8:41:01 PM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (Dum spiramus tuebimur - "While We Have Breath, We Will Defend")
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To: Steelfish

Bill is already an active member of the I Felta Thigh fraternity....


3 posted on 07/10/2009 8:42:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted. I Upped My Monthly....Now, Up Yours.)
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To: Steelfish

Birds of a feather.


4 posted on 07/10/2009 8:43:16 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Cut n Shoot Texas: Mayberry for rednecks)
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo

Was it the way he threw Lani Guinier under the bus? Or was it the way he laughed during Ron Brown’s memorial service? Or perhaps it was because Bill Clinton did not allow a single African-American into his inner circle during his entire 8 years in office.


5 posted on 07/10/2009 8:44:37 PM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: Steelfish

Congratulations to America’s other First Black President.


6 posted on 07/10/2009 8:47:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out?)
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To: Steelfish

Chris Rock said that Bill Clinton was America’s first black president because he played the sax, smoked weed, and slept with ugly white women.


7 posted on 07/10/2009 8:47:14 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo

What did Clinton ever do for blacks? All I remember is his people complaining about crack carrying more of a penalty than the sort of cocaine that white people use (that couldn’t be because crack was more of a problem, could it?).


8 posted on 07/10/2009 8:47:21 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Hoodat

Don’t forget Joycelyn Elders....


9 posted on 07/10/2009 8:49:11 PM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (Dum spiramus tuebimur - "While We Have Breath, We Will Defend")
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To: Steelfish
Stevie Wonder, Al Roker, the Rev. Al Sharpton and jazz musician Ramsey Lewis are also honorary members of Phi Beta Sigma.

Al Roker? Really?

*snicker*

10 posted on 07/10/2009 8:49:19 PM PDT by TXBlair (With any luck at all, I'll be dead by then.)
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo

What a snub to 0.


11 posted on 07/10/2009 8:49:59 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (-0 Retreats, Iraq explodes! NK fires missiles! Iran erupts! China erupts!)
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To: Steelfish

“Phi Beta Sigma”

PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

The irony is not lost...


12 posted on 07/10/2009 8:51:13 PM PDT by clyde260 (Public Enemy #1: Network News!)
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To: Steelfish
isn't an “all back” thing, racist and against the law? I know that some clubs I was a member of many years ago were taken to court because they were all white.... what is this? inequality? sarcasm
13 posted on 07/10/2009 8:52:54 PM PDT by bareford101 (obamanation's United States of Wonderland, but God still holds the reins)
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To: Steelfish

Is there a white frat?


14 posted on 07/10/2009 8:52:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Steelfish
Bill Clinton is Navin R. Johnson.
15 posted on 07/10/2009 8:54:42 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Third World trickle up poverty, will lead to cascading Third World tyranny.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

No, no … he (Clinton) was and is, apparently, considered Americas first black president. Obama is our first half black president. Not the same.


16 posted on 07/10/2009 8:59:43 PM PDT by doc1019 (YO! You are also half white Â… recognize it, deal with it.)
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To: The_Sword_of_Groo

She was president?


17 posted on 07/10/2009 9:00:42 PM PDT by doc1019 (YO! You are also half white Â… recognize it, deal with it.)
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To: SpaceBar

Hey wait...just..a minute..now thats RACIST! LOL...Is The girls gone wild guy looking for a new “guest star”?? BUBBA ON SPRING BREAK???


18 posted on 07/10/2009 9:01:43 PM PDT by jakerobins ( NO)
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To: jakerobins

Just an honest question. If there’s a black fraternity then surely there must be a white fraternity.


19 posted on 07/10/2009 9:06:06 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: doc1019

Not to my knowledge. Simply another black person Bubba threw under the bus, as the poster I was replying to pointed out. Perhaps you didn’t read that post?


20 posted on 07/10/2009 9:06:28 PM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (Dum spiramus tuebimur - "While We Have Breath, We Will Defend")
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