This video is apart of a larger film titled Black Greeks White Masters by Khui Land Productions. In the film, they discuss the ways in which black Greek life is a form of oppression influenced by white supremacy and power. They highlight the ways in which black people have become immersed in a culture, Greek culture, that is not theirs, and does not account for them. In the video above, the lecturer talks about the common practice of branding as "the ultimate sign of being a slave" (0:13). Paul Ruffins, in his article "The Persistent Madness of Greek Hazing," agrees that "the increasingly popular practice of fraternity branding appears, at least symbolically, to be a direct throwback to slavery" (1998, 2). During slavery, masters would brand their slaves as property. This branding would allow masters to know who such slave belonged to, but was also a form of discipline and punishment for the slaves if they ran away (1:54). In BGLOs, mostly fraternities utilize such tactics as one of the ultimate symbols of dedication. Usually, it happens at the very end of one's process, establishing the final belonging of that pledge to the organization, similar to a slave's belonging to their master. One member in an interview conducted for this study, decided to get the brand because while pledges are not required or forced, as slaves were, not having such brand may cause older members who do have one, to look at the new member as less than, as having a weak process, or not manly enough to be considered a sufficient member of the fraternity. That feeling of un-belongingness to him, was worse than a brand (Anonymous). However, this video takes branding and other slave tactics a step further and notes that similar tactics were used before slavery, in Ancient Roman Greece, and was simply passed down as tactics to use during the slave trade (0:49). Today, those same tactics are engulfed in black Greek life.