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Originally posted by kristiAZD
My post was in response to the quote about not being able to imagine a racially mixed GLO that was not founded on those principles, and they also said that was maybe because they were from the south. I really never thought about things being different until I read that person's reply. This person, going to a school from the south, put this assumption up. Apparently, there are southern people who think that's out of the ordinary. Not all think this way, and I realize that. I also do not condemn that person for thinking that way, that's just the environment they are living in at the moment. They were from a different place than dzrose93, so perhaps that's why there is the differing opinion. Don't forget the previous posts about it being "about time" that an African-American joined a predominately white GLO. Without saying it outright, people are saying basically the same thing I said. I did not mean my post to be interpreted in a way that would say that all southerners are racist or that the North is better than the South. It was just a response to a previous post. I am sorry if it offended anyone.
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kristiaxid,
Thanks for responding to my post. I do understand the reason for your comments and I apologize if singling your post out made you uncomfortable. It's just that there have been so many comments concerning racism, GLO's, and the South lately that the whole issue has gotten me, for lack of a better term, "fired up." I'm sure that you meant no real offense.
I just really needed to vent for a while, and I hope you can understand how frustrating it is for Southern Greeks to listen over and over again to criticism regarding diversity issues in our chapters when there is nothing at all that we can truly do about it.
Basically, what I'm attempting to say here is that your opinions are always welcome at GreekChat (whether I happen to agree with them or not
) and I hope that my outspoken post will not make you shy away from voicing your thoughts.
Carrie