[Shelacious]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
What is the Purpose of the NPHC?

If many are always putting out there that organizations aren't unified and there is always division and there are rivalries and this and that, then where does one end and where does one begin?

If it really isn't important, then why is it that it's brought up 90% of the time on GC? I'm serious. If it's NOT THAT DEEP, then why are some of the same clumps of people yelling the SAME stuff/drama/ya ya?

Many people are whining, griping and complaining about why this is this or why that is that, pre-this, post- that. If it's not that deep, then why do these SAME issues continue to come up?

Are people only saying the unity thing, because there isn't anything else to say? What is it?

Sister Soror AKA2D '91,

I think your comments are interesting. I post fairly often, but I try and stay away from the more "controversial" topics. This one, however, garnered even a response from me.

I do agree with you. In my candid opinion, the NPHC is possibly about unification on a global level, but the NPHC has little to do with how members of the NPHC relate to one another on their campus or in the smaller community. What I have noticed is that most BGL folks DO have defined very real prejudices about other organizations--not about a specific chapter, but about the ENTIRE ORGANIZATION. As such, seems to me that it makes it difficult to have empathy about your fellow BGL member or your fellow BGL organization if you could "never see yourself in that organization" or you would " die before you joined XYZ" or you think that "XYZs are ghetto, stupid, country, weak, stuck-up, fat, sorry, skaters". If I truly felt that way about AKA, for example, why would I EVER want to work with or even have any sort of relationship with a vast majority of its members???? I certainly would have no desire to work with people in a volunteer capacity that I will not get along with, won't like and think of as "less" than myself.

BGL members have created an environment on some campuses and in some communities that run counter to the messages espoused by the NPHC. We like our organizations autocratic, and we like to create our own programs and processes outside of the NPHC to more clearly outline the differences between the organizations. We know that all of our organizations were founded under similar principles (the party line), but we also know that it is our DIFFERENCES that enable guy Friday or girl Tuesday to select ABC over XYZ. This environment has been around for so many years and so many generations, that I don't know if it will ever be overshadowed by the unifying concept of the NPHC (the NPC has done a much better job of this, but with some loss of organizational individuality). The solution: well, there are several, but they involve a radical thought process changes or tragic events within the NPHC, which I'm not sure I even buy into.