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Originally Posted by Senusret I
It's interesting that no one ever has any evidence to show that a black person was ever even interested in pledging a white fraternity or sorority in those days.
We know it's a fact that blacks weren't welcome, but that doesn't suggest that our organizations were born of the notion of being unwelcome.
BGLOs created the blueprint for a new TYPE of fraternity all together. Alpha was born as a study club and evolved into a fraternity which performed public programs, community service, and dedicated itself to social justice internally and externally.
"White" fraternities were not doing this. And that's fine. But again, doesn't mean that my founders were snubbed and did their own thing. It means that something different was necessary, so something different was created -- not something new was created because they were excluded.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but there really is a difference.
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I agree but I think it's more about the fact that if we wanted to join them, we couldn't. Also, I think people assume that since many Blacks back then wanted to integrate with Whites and be accepted by them, that we probably wanted to be in their orgs at first or that we would've jumped at the chance had they been open to it, though of course we haven't discovered any proof of this..