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Originally posted by G8Ralphaxi
The other problem we encountered is that when minorities do go through our system, there is a LOT of pressure from their families, friends, etc. NOT to join. They are told that they are "selling out" by joining a "white girl sorority" instead of an NPHC sorority.
Some houses at UF the girls literally are all about the same size and have the same haircut/color. Attack of the Clones! My sorority never looked like "cookie-cutter" sisters. We had a great mix of tall and short, christian and jewish (and a buddhist), every hair color, etc. We had a number of hispanic and asian sisters. It never was a big deal to us. Our whole approach to Rush was looking for girls that we wanted to have as friends. I still remember what our Rush chair told us my sophomore year: "You want the girl who you can picture yourself watching silly TV shows with."
The 4 years that I was an active sister, we had only one black member, and she dropped out before initiation. Her mom made her quit because we didn't have any other black girls. Really made a lot of us upset - she was really sweet - i.e. someone you want to watch silly TV shows with! It's very frustrating when someone criticizes you for not having black sisters, when none will join because you have no black sisters! You can't win.
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You've made a good point. Being in a historically Black sorority, I can see how it would be difficult for historically white sororities and fraternities to get black members. PERSONALLY, I don't see what would attract a black person to a historically white fraternity or sorority. But, there are black students that mingle best, and fit in better, with historically white fraternity and sorority members. In some cases, these people are sell outs, but NOT IN ALL. I would just hope that non-white members of such organizations would use their "opportunity" to educate their fellow sorority sisters and fraternity brothers re: tolerance, diversity, race issues, etc. In turn, the non-white members can gain from, and learn a great deal from their sorority sisters and fraternity brothers as well.