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Originally posted by Dexter
So let me understand that if one member of an organization feels that way, then you indict ALL BGLOs? Do you see how asinine that sounds?
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Relax, Relate Release now Dexter, lol!
I think that dzrose is basically not addressing your or my comments because they don't fit in with her theory.
She has made certain assumptions that she doesn't care to have challenged and so contrary evidence (like your posts and my posts about actually having peple of another race IN OUR CHAPTERS) is dismissed.
We know this.
There are ALWAYS going to be members of BGLO's who don't want white people in our organizations. Do you know why? Because THERE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE SOME BLACK PEOPLE WHO, WHETHER THROUGH PAINFUL EXPERIENCE OR THROUGH SHEER HARDHEADEDNESS DON'T TRUST WHITE PEOPLE!
Organizations can only reflect the societies that compose them. I don't know whether they can even understand that when they talk about racial prejudice and discrimination, that those are things our PARENTS and GRANDPARENTS lived through- segregation was rampant when my Mother came to this country from Jamaica. I know that for people who are from America their parents and grandparents SUFFERED under Jim Crow laws. IT WAS NOT THAT LONG AGO that this happened! IT still lives on in our families memories and it will take more than one generation of white people going "Oh no, we really like you" for those memories to go away.
Did you know that BGL Sororities initially had things like Delta Beaux and MIAKA's because men were needed to PROTECT these women from members of the KKK? SO many of our purposes and our traditions are rooted in a sense of black unity and empowerment that for us to open our organizations to a non-black person requires a huge leap of faith for MANY.