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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
What DBB said.
NPC groups started consciously, deliberately keeping out the undesired categories very early. Witness the founding of AOII. Perhaps more importantly, they continued to do so until very recently. This is what makes "They're just sisters" problematic. History still matters, as any SEC student will tell you when we're talking about other kinds of institutional history. Celebrating Founders' Day when the Founders would likely have resigned rather than share membership with people like you is a problem. Sisterhood with alumnae who joined an explicitly segregated organization is a problem. It's a problem that many folks can deal with, but denying it doesn't make it go away. "They're just sisters" denies that facet of nonwhite (and non-Protestant) experience.
You learn what clichés are by listening and watching, especially to people whose experience is different from you.
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The institutional history of my alma mater, where racial segregation/discrimination is concerned, is about as negatively high-profile as it possibly could be. The governor's doorway stand to block AA students from entering is well-known. Certainly it would be possible to have women in one's alum group (and everywhere else) whose thinking is a reflection of that period.
So in society's current tier of evolution with racial diversity, what should SEC NPC chapters be striving to say or do that would not be considered "cliché?"
(question not directed to you specifically, but to all)