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Historically white isn't offensive to me and neither is predominantly white. Why? Because that's just the majority of who makes up most NPC groups. My chapter isn't majority white by any means (it's majority hispanic) but a lot of the other chapters are. To see any black girl in another chapter is very rare (believe me, I've been on tons of websites there aren't too many of us.) But it doesn't mean that my org. as a whole prefers one race over another. It just means that the majority of people who have joined and who are joining are white. Before I even joined I noticed an strange point. At the time my org. was founded, my family was working as slaves in the same state. It's sort of ironic and sometimes weird, but I didn't let it stop me from joining, race/race history/race relations just wasn't an issue. Why does everyone keep fighting about these terms? People use words to communicate and they are trying to communicate the point that some organizations are in fact majority white in membership, that does not translate into exclusively white under any circumstances. It also works the same way: HBCU or HBGLO, etc. I just can't get why everyone is up in arms. It is what it is. If you must describe it in terms of race then PW seems fairly accurate.
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