Non-Black members in BGLOs?
 

So I am very new to this forum, and this is the first question I must pose. I am a white female and I just recently became a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporate.

Since crossing, I have met a lot of discord at my school because our line had two non-Black members. One female, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., went far enough to say "NPHC is only for black people"

I do not want to start a fight, I simply want to discuss this and see how people feel. Is this really how most people feel?

Then you might try leaving the names of other organizations out of your post, especially when it's irrelevant to your point.

Although it's irrelevant to the point, the organization she mentioned does, in fact, have a white national board member. So at least it's ironic that she would be told that.

Beautiful.

oh sheesh.

Curiousity - Which board member? http://www.aka1908.com/present/leadership/ doesn't have pictures. :(

Also, see the Ebony Magazine (December 2000) article on the topic at
http://books.google.com/books?id=JNcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA172

See Sen's thread on the subject.

You didn't want to start a fight?

MMMkay....

Can someone warm up some kettle corn please?

**But first MMITY moment** "I swear, those NPHC people with those weird jungle dances"


Carry on.

Since Folks Always Want to Bring Up AKA...
 

:)

To be real and succinct, it is an attitude that you are going to find in members in every organization, including your own. (Be sure to come and post in your sorority's forum when that happens ;) ) Do most people feel this way; probably not. But how can any of us say for sure?

My question is are these questions that you considered before you joined your organization?

Did your sisters prepare you for the reality that you would face these kinds of perspectives?

You will, I am sure, face these attitudes, on occasion, for the lifetime of your membership. You need to figure out how much you are going to let these occasional encounters color your experiences with your sorority.

LOL

NonBlack NPHCers are not hardly as common as the Internet would lead people to believe, even for Sigma and Zeta.

If you joined with a lifetime commitment to service with a central service community of Black and African diasporic, why the HELL are you thinking about anything other than enjoying your NEW membership and doing the service that your membership process prepared you for?

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

IRL i've met a handful of NonBlack NPHCers, but a good portion of that handful were Hispanic. It's really funny because its usually the majority, Black membership that create all their hype.

That's why this topic is really a nontopic to me. LOL.

I just posted in Sen's thread about the white AKA board member and this is what I was talking about. Why did the OP join in the first place? Because the Zetas on her campus are cool and they accepted her? Did she take a look at Zeta's mission and purpose before joining? If so, how did she reconcile that with her life and how did she articulate her commitment to the vision of the organization to the members of the chapter?

All rhetorical questions, of course, but questions I would ask if a similar situation occurred in my own organization.

Its funny that I ran across this topic becuz I tried to pledge a black sorority they at first looked down on me cuz I'm yellow until I told them that my grandmother 2 aunts and mother were sisters then it was different. One sister even went as far as pointing me to a latin sorority table during a meet the greek event. I told her butt off then called my grandmother who was fall 49 and she was pissed and found away to contact the chapter president and told her off too. Times have changed and many GLOs should realize that.

Thank God both you and your granny FAILED.

^^Granny probably would have done better telling her grandchild off; or did granny forget how these things sometimes go?

And why would she be directed to a Latina sorority just because she has jaundice?

LOL - you took the words right out of my mouth!

LMMFAO!!! Since when do we turn away yellow folks? Hell, some of us are yellow folk.

I am *dead* @ Jaundiced!!! ;p

<-------- lightskinnedededededededed

The first thing to comes to mind when she says she is yellow is this:









http://www.mazcue.com.ar/wp-content/...5/simpsons.jpg

No. They are a little too dark to be yellow. I would classify these as orange folks. No one wants them in their org.:(

Well, clearly, the Latina sororities would want them.

That's racist.
:D

I <3 you! LOL!

My line sisters and I, circa 1996:

http://roxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/peeps.jpg

JUST STOP IT LOLOLOL

What?

They call me "Mellow Yellow" - #7! :D

Your peeps, huh?

:p LOL

badumdum...chhhhhhhhhhh....

Thank you! I'll be here all week!

LOL!

Let the chuuuuch say...Amen.

i hatechu both. LOL

What that AKA said was ignorant to say the least. If you have a passion for what Zeta Phi Beta stands for than it does not matter what race you are. I especially find what that AKA said offensive because way back when, one of the reasons black greek letter organizations were founded was because black women and men were snubbed by white greek letter organizations. Obviously the reasons for our foundings goes beyond this (serving the african american communtiy, sisterhood/brotherhood, etc) but she is now behaving in the same manner that would be called racism if an NPC group treated a black girl the same way.