Mwedzi--Anthro rules, does it not? hehehe
I don't meet too many anthro peeps, so I had to say something!
Anyway, to the topic. Mwedzi, you bring up some good points and I'm feeling you on some stuff. Especially the
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I get downright angry when people say that black people who spend a lot of their time outside of the black community don't know what it is to be black or don't know the black experience or are trying to be white
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Girl, have I been through that up, down and around! But hey, I've learned to just do what I gotta do and if that means hanging around WHOEVER makes you happy, then so be it.
Now, as far as what you were saying about your org. You said (and this is just the gist, so forgive me if I get it wrong) but you said your sorority might as well be "multicultural"....and that's the reason you chose it. Ok, well that's cool. But I think that for some black people in BGLOs, they might not think of there being much mixture in traditionally white greek orgs. I know when I think of the NPC/IFC groups on my campus, I think pretty much that they are all white. So maybe in your case, this does not really apply. But on my campus, out of the NPC and IFC, the minorities involved in those is about 2%. Not much diversity right? Then again, the total Greek popul. is like 15%--so maybe it's not
that bad. Nonetheless, it's not great either. I know there are 2-3 black men in the IFC groups and there are 30 IFC groups on my campus. Uh, can we say "where is the mixture?" So I think that is what most black peeps in BGLOs are thinking of when talking about this issue; that the black people who join NPC/IFC orgs are joining ones that are virtually all white--maybe one minority here and there. But I can't really speak for everyone else on that so, forgive me if I put words in someone else's head.
Now I don't know about your campus, so maybe where you go it's different and it's not uncommon for a black,asian,indian, etc to join a NPC/IFC org. At my school as you can see, it's pretty taboo. Then again, we have white, black, latino/a, asian and now a multicultural greek orgs. Oops, we have an Indian fraternity too. We are just all segregated aren't we?
Oh and w/ my org (just to make it clear) we are not a NPC sorority that
looks multicultural. Nope, we were founded by an ethnically mixed group of women and our principles/goals/ideals/ are to promote and foster multiculturalism/diversity and education (specifically multicult. education) to our communities. So we are multicultural in every sense of the word. My sisters and I represent around some 60+ different ethnicities and we're still growing! Just wanted to make that clear
peace ya'll