I SO agree with you here! And you did your examples well! Because I have seen NPC chapters that are diverse in race and religion

Let's keep talking y'all! (I might be on the West Coast but you can't take the South outta me!) :D

This is very important. If anything, each PNM must be shown the same courtesy and respect during the process. I can only begin to imagine what my recruitment experience would have been like at one of these schools...:( I know I've mentioned this in another post, but I often wonder what it would be like if I could go through a Recruitment at one of those schools, just to see how differently I would be treated...I would like to hope that I would have the same courtesy and respect, but I'm realistic...

It's not simply a matter of "an organization can select whom they want," which is true...but they cannot use race as a reason for rejection, especially when they have explicit antidiscriminatory clauses for race and religion--which is what is wrong about the system. Let's not make excuses for ignorant people.

JAM's wisdom
 

I read this in the thread What makes someone worthy of your letters?, I found some of justamom's wisdom that I think would also be appropriate here:

personally, I think justamom's wisdom would be appreciated in EVERY thread. Not just those that "apply."

I completely agree aabby757 :)

Her comment that I reposted from the other thread seemed to suit the discussion of this thread also, so I thought I would add it here :)

As a UGA student, I've heard from older members of my chapter that there was more the situation than just the color of the girl's skin. Many, many pnm's are released from our recruitment. It's VERY competitive. Each chapter has the right to choose members on the basis of its own criteria. Also, it's well known that if a white girl tried to join a NPHC group here, she would NEVER be admitted. Seems like a double standard if no one writes articles in TIME about that situation.

Actually, it was mentioned before. In a December 2000 issue of Ebony magazine, there was an article about Whites in NPHC groups. Great article...wish I kept the issue!

You say you're "sure" race didn't play a role in the sorority's decision, but yet you are also sure that the HBGLO's at Auburn wouldn't have accepted you and not be called racist?


Why doesn't that make sense to me?

In all honesty, the only people who will ever know if race did play a role in the sorority's decision will be the women in the room when they were discussing the pnm... so I don't know how you can be so "sure". In the articles about the UGA incident, all of them stated that a woman in that particular sorority was upset when she heard all the remarks her sister was saying. I highly doubt someone would just make something up like that for fun.

... but that's just my opinion :)

I'm sorry, but what are you basing that on. . .I'm guessing it's something that you heard of because there are many non-African American women in NPHC sororities. I know this because some of them are my family.

So true. . .

Most of the articles I have read said that the girl disaffiliated completely. I have to wonder why she was the only one. There are a lot of girls in those chapters at UGA. It makes me wonder if the conversation wasn't misinterpreted by this girl. The articles note that it was clear that the pnm was about to quit the rush process. And to say that their was no conversation about the one african-american out of 1000 girls would be ignorant. I am sure their was. But as Texas*Princess pointed out, only the women in that room know exactly what was said that day.

Not at all schools - they do things differently down south.

The TIME article mentioned how other minority women of that sorority ended up leaving the chapter for other inicidents that happened that had racial tones:

http://www.time.com/time/education/a...,59389,00.html