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I am not a member of a BGLO, but let me say I was absolutely disgusted by the total disrespect and ignorance this so called educator has shown. First of all, like some have stated before, those "antics" you speak of are not sanctioned by the governing bodies of the divine 9. Second, to call the divine "fluid-like minority clubs" has to be one of the most outrageous things I have ever heard. Are you familiar with the history of any of the organizations, their founders, or the prominent people who have been members. W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph, Rev. Jessie Jackson, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Maya Angelou, Zora Neil Hurston, Toni Morrison, and even Elanor Roosevelt were/are all members of those "fluid-like minority clubs". You wonder why even though GLO's have accepted minorities for many years, we still drift to organizations which consist of "our own kind", well maybe its because we know that those organizations have always wanted us and were not forced by law to let us in. Some organizations still don't want us. I suggest you go and talk to some of the people in the NPHC or Latino or Asian GLO's and maybe ask them why they aren't in the typical GLO's or why they engage in some of the traditions they do instead of just looking in from the outside and prejudging. Oh, and one more thing, for the record, Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. are all members of the NIC as well as the NPHC. In fact one of the former presidents of the NIC was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi. Research my friend, research.
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