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Originally posted by Kymberleigh:
DeltaBrat. I'm glad that you didn't shun this particular girl for chosing a GLO. HOwever, in my experience you and your friends are the exception. I know quite a few people who were cut out of the pic. because they joined GLO's and not BGLO's. I wish that my knowledge concerning this issue was more like yours.
However, I disagree with your statement concerning the white/black issue and this woman you speak of. You can't say that because her and her sisters weren't tight after graduation is because of racial issues, and if that is the case with that particular situation. It is for that particular situation. The way you made your statement it seemed as though you use that one case to base why no black person should join a GLO.
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Okay, I don't know how to use this thing. I originally wanted to reply to the second half of your post.
Kymberleigh (nice spelling, too): Yes! That's exactly what I was saying and I stand by that notion that it was, maybe not because of her race DIRECTLY, but indirectly that there was not a bond between she and her sisters.
ZChi actually put it in great words that there is simply differences between the cultures. For whatever reason, I think the difference was pronounced in her case with her sisters lack of support during a time when she really needed it.
This is NOT the only case that I have seen at my college campus.
Unfortunately, many black people who join GLOs feel that if race isn't brought up, then is not an issue (someone said that but I can't see the posts and I can't remember). That's BS. Just because race isn't brought up doesn't mean it isn't an issue. It is. That, in my eyes, is a black person who is assimilating. Race is an issue. It has been from day one. Now we're accepted into other organizations, to have a "If you don't bring up me black-ness than I won't" type attitude is NUTS!
Finally, Ice Cold...why am I feeling your every statement?!?!?!
And ZCHI...yes, I was feeling what you were saying...very much so.
Oh yeah, and Rain Man...where you been?
The process of a BGLO is no more elusive than the process of joining a lot of organizations. It is not that we do not seek members, and shouldn't be used as an excuse to seek membership in a GLO. If that were the case we wouldn't have any members as is. In retrospect, when I think about how I had to literally SEARCH for Delta, everything I needed to know was right in front of me. Some people see it, some don't. The ones who do will be able to seek and find the answers to questions CRUCIAL in life, those happen to be the people most BGLOs and seeking. The others who want the answers to be written down and handed to them will fall by the wayside...you can guess the rest... I know people who have been denied membership in certain BGLOs and are STILL trying...one graduated and is in grad school...she is now interested in alumnae. She didn't say "Oh, I'll join XYZ Sorority because the XYZs won't tell me straight out when the rush is, where it is, what to wear, what to say, when the next line is, who made it, how they choose members, what the GPA requirement is....I could go on and on, obviously
Alright...I'm done.
PEACE to ALL!!!
[This message has been edited by DELTABRAT (edited August 09, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by DELTABRAT (edited August 09, 2000).]