What Is Aka Jacket

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A student has gone viral on Twitter this week after slamming a substitute for wearing her teacher’s AKA jacket.

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People on Twitter are calling her ‘mad disrespectful’, but what actually is an AKA jacket? Read on for the meaning…

AKA jacket meaning

AKA stands for Alpha Kappa Alpha, which was the first intercollegiate African-American sorority in the United States.

An AKA jacket is a varsity-style coat that is given to everyone who is part of that particular sorority at a university.

Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded on January 15, 1908 at Howard University in Washington D.C. by a group of sixteen students.

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The sorority was led by a woman called Ethel Hedgemon Lyle and was a huge step forward for African-American women.

It’s now one of the largest Greek-letter organizations, having had more than 350,000 members in the US and other countries.

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The viral tweet shows a student in disbelief after a substitute teacher put on her usual teacher’s AKA jacket.

It was left in the classroom and the substitute, a White American woman with grey hair, randomly decided to wear it.

The student shared a photo of the woman in the jacket and another revealing her shocked facial expression.

“Y’all why I’m in class and we got a sub and she gon grab our teacher’s AKA jacket and put it on,” she tweeted.

“And then we tryna explain to her and tell her to take it off and SHE WON’T DO IT LMFAOOOO.”

In the comments, Twitter users are slamming the teacher for being disrespectful towards Black culture.

One person wrote: “That’s mad disrespectful.”

“She doesn’t respect Black culture,” said another.

Others are saying it would be rude to wear someone else’s jacket in any case, even if it was plain.

A third person added: “But… why would she put on that lady’s clothes anyway – AKA attire or not?! This is all awful.”

“Putting on someone else’s jacket without asking is wild,” someone else said.

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