Thanks Midwest
I did not intend to excuse those discriminatory actions by any means. It was wrong, point blank. I just wanted to note that it was, for that era, the status quo.
There is no excuse for that kind of behavior in the here and now. But I agree, I too have seen certain chapters of different orgs that make you go "hmmm.."
As for the whole NPHC v. HWGLO thing that is to my mind a product of a lack of knowledge about each other. Like most NPHC greeks don't know that HWGLO's have alumnae chapters just like we do- making HWGLO's nothing more than social clubs in their mind. Add to that the rather unsavory social stigma (drinking, etc) of things that are not problems with our orgs (not that ours are problem free by any means) but that we STILL seem to get blamed for (since most white people cant tell a BGLO from a WGLO, they think we're all the same), and people think they can throw rocks.
We just need to make an effort to know and understand each other, IMO.
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