Well I know quite a few non black members in Delta, and I like them very much and welcomed them into Delta. The non black members I know were all raised in an urban community and basically never really associated with whites/latinos in high school/college. So they joined a organization they felt comfortable with.
So I ask the question: What if you know that this member was raised among blacks and that's all they have ever known? Would you feel different or you wouldn't care?
Let me just say that black and white greeks got together one time at my school to express our opinions about each other. It got emotional but it came down to this:
White Greeks: We think you guys are cool, but we REALLY don't consider you greek because your chapters are so small, you weren't founded in the 1800's, and you don't have houses or money like us.
Black Greeks: We think you guys are cool, but we REALLY don't consider you guys greeks, because you guys don't really pledge, you take in a lot of members who pay a fee and drink a lot all day.
Just telling you what the jist of this meeting was about, I wonder if more white/black greeks feel like this and just don't want to say anything.
QTE
