I agree somewhat with DeltaBrat and Discogodess...
too often we say what we think will be easy to stomach...
and maybe I stand on the side of the militant...probably alone but I'm going to speak my peace!!!
I do think that there is a problem when black people pledge white organizations...white organizations who did not want you...and given the racial problems of the past 100 years...how can any of these organizations teach unity in sisterhood or brotherhood...there is no common experience to tie us...I don't mean to be rude or mean...but I think that black people who join these organizations or culturally and racially unconscious...many of these students can't tell prejudice from popcorn, thats my own personal experience as i went to a traditionally white liberal arts college!
I don't think that white folks should pledge BGLOs...how can you understand that experience...how can you bond with that culture...our organizations are inately rooted in our culture as white organzations are rooted in their cultures...
I question any white person who wants to serve in my community...whats your purpose...and why do you want in?...I'm not interested in having tokens in the Frat. Some will see it as validation (as many trad. white orgs do)...but BGLO don't need that...our record stands alone...
ask any Delta about their founders walking in the back of the suffrage march in 1913...
ask any Kappa about lodging at Indiana University in 1911
ask any Alpha about fair classrooms and alienation in 1906
ask any AKA about the Mississippi health projece in the 1920's
you better ask em', and have them sit down and tell you about service...but also about their people...
so yes, I'm mad when eligible black candidates turn their backs on our WONDERFUL and BEAUTIFUL orgs...and we have white young people beating down our doors to join! There is something intuitively wrong with that picture.
It's a shame in many cases and in many ways...
I'm sorry if I have offended anybody...but I just thought this was necessary...
In the spirit of ALPHA,
I am,
Ice Cold Kreator
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