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Originally posted by JayBEE!:
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Kimmie1913 - "This seems to be a local issue exclusive to those campuses where APO/GSS are sen as trying to represent like other BGLO's.
This statement, althought carefully orchestrated as to attempt to not offend, comes off as still being condensending. Because it assumes that APO/GSS are seen as trying to represent AS other BGLO's. Not
Just being who they want to be. The problem is how we are preceived by individuals who don't know the history behind us. We are new to them.
JayBEE!
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That is exactly what it is saying. I thought the pont of this thread was the assertion that there was some animosity between BGLO's and APO/GSS because NPHC orgs perceived them as imitating. There was nothing condecending about the statement, it was stating what RM asserted was happening around at different schools and suggested the problem was an isolated one, not a national one. The issue is not your history, it is your actions which have nothing to do with your history. I sincerelt doubt your history and official traditions have anything to do with stepping, branding (yuck- but that is another topic altogether),etc. Conflicts like these are never about the FACTS only the PERCEPTIONS. As many of the psot reflect, even those who hear, know and cognitively understand the history/rexplanations DON"T CARE because their perception remains the same.
Yhe point was this is not a national problem and exclusive to to those campuses where BGLO's have a negative perception regarding the behavior of APO and GSS.
I found the whole 25/52 fam distinctino fascinating, though. What is the point of in one breath touting the diversity of your organization and in the next taking it to the level of we are a faction all our own within the org? The examples you gave do not expalin away the divisiveness of that position. They seek to justify it. Saying although we have been explaining why we act so differently from chapter to chapter ia our great diversity we also think it is okay that we mimick the seperatsm that can be found thorughout soiciety all at the same time. You examples exemplify the fact that the US is still a divided society wehre Black people and white people live their lives seperatesly. Are you saying, yeah, that's true and we exhibit that smae de facto segregation in our fraternity,too?
I am sure you are porobably not but your responses have not yet rectified that issue IMHO and I would invite a response that could show how those two positions truly live side by side.