Shadokat, you are absolutely correct. I am an african american in an NPC.
I dont think we will ever know if the demand actually is present or not. I knew of many minority woman who were interested in NPC orgs. but didnt join b/c of the slack that they could have come under for it. And im sure there are plenty of caucasian men or woman who probably would have joined an NPHC org if they knew they wouldnt come under fire for it. You do have people such as myself, who will say ya know what I can see your concer but, screw you i'll do what feels right for me. My african american friends at school were a lil hestitant at first whn i said i was looking at the NPC orgs. but when I came back from the fiest meeting and they asked how i was treated and were they nice, etc. they were all for me joining and even wanted to come to the parties. Even though we all have a voice, we all know that outside voices do play a certain role in our actions. After all these orgs are historically white , black or whatever. There maybe chapters that are all this or all that, but as an org most have a mixture of races.
For some reason kind of suprises me that ppl dont think it will ever be 50/50. This is just my opinion but its statements like that, that will keep it from ever becoming 50/50. It may not happen in our lifetime, but I think it will. Who knows what will happen, after all whoever thought that Hispanics/Latinos would ever be the majority and caucasians the minority? Whoever thought we would go into space? Who thought slavery would end? Ok ill stop
Here's what I say, It all starts with you. If your friend or better yet your child came home and told you that they wanted to join or had become involved with a GLO thats not historically there race, would you be bale to accept it? Think about it. Of couse your going to have the obvious hesitations, but when it comes down to it, can you deal?
We need to change our OWN attitudes before we can change society.

*gets off her " 2 cent, into this whole no bad karma/negativty thing" soapbox*