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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
Would a person who goes around saying that really be stupid or just honest? No offense, but it gets really ridiculous in certain situations when people try to pretend like people really don't know why someone wasn't picked. In many cases it IS racism, but it is that subtle racism that will never actually be acknowledged. In my opinion that is the most dangerous type of racism because there's nothing you can do about it. I would rather deal with the person who is admitting that they turned someone down because of their race than someone who acts all prim and proper and polite while lying through their teeth. And in the case of these types of sororities, they hide behind the membership selection process and often point to other white women who weren't selected as if that really proves anything. No, all white women won't get into the predominately white sororities. I don't think anyone is crazy enough to believe that. However, when you have chapters or entire organizations that never have black members, that tells the story in and of itself because you can't sit there and honestly say that there have NEVER been any qualified black women.
As far as the OP, it sounds like she has other issues going on within herself concerning her racial identity. She doesn't want to join a "black" sorority because she doesn't want to "limit" herself, but now it sounds like she wants to join a predominately white sorority. That's not equally limiting?
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Again, you are basing all of this on your instincts or opinion - I will give you a concrete example of why I can sit here and say that sometimes there haven't been any qualified black women going through a NPC recruitment. SMU - the NPC sororities were criticized in the press, and then someone actually did the research - AND IT TURNS OUT UP TO THAT POINT IN TIME NO BLACK WOMEN HAD GONE THROUGH RECRUITMENT. Several qualified women went through, and guess what? They were pledged. So yes, I can sit here and say that sometimes the problem is that black women are not going thorugh the NPC recruitment process.
And again - you don't understand NPC membership selection. You can't. I don't think I'm revealing too much to say that the reasons behind a member's vote remain as private as the member wishes. Race may, or may not, be a reason for
A member to chose not to vote for a woman - but for you to become omniscient all of a sudden and say that it is racism for chapters to not have black members (I don't know of any NPCs that DON'T have minority members - I'm sure we would have heard of it were that the case) is to denigrate the NPC and the many intelligent, open-minded members who have pledged and initiated women from across the colour spectrum. Are there chapters that might not pledge a black woman? Probably - but to paint the whole system at a campus or even worse, the NPC ,as racist without some sort of data to back up your assertion is to ignore the reality of NPC chapters today AND discourages otherwise interested women from pursuing membership - then it becomes a vicious circle. Black women don't go through, black women don't pledge, chapters don't have black members, so black women don't go through.