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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
I remember the summer I participated in a summer program that was a joint effort between W&L, Spelman, Morehouse, and Berea college. I already had great opinions of all these institutions, but I remember being really shocked at how preppy some of the Morehouse men were. These guys were more preppy than most W&L guys! In fact they could give the guys in the top fraternity at W&L a run for their money in terms of preppy/expensive/classy clothing, wealth, and general personal comportment and class. There were definitely guys like that at W&L too, but not guys that got accepted into the supposed "top" fraternities. I felt like some of the Morehouse guys in the program were probably the preppiest people I'd ever met. I'm sure that many of them were involved in NPHC orgs.
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Yes, many of the Morehouse men that you saw were probably in NPHC frats or aspirants.
That's why I said his comment wasn't true on a larger scale. People's assessment of such things will always be based on their sample population. If you observe Morehouse, then your take on "black preppy" will be different. And if you observe preppy black males at particular PWIs, your take on preppy will be even more different.