Unorganized thoughts ahead:
I think it's important that organizations established for, and maintaining a continuing mission for marginalized/minority communities, maintain that character.
All NIC/IFC fraternities are not the same, don't recruit the same, and shouldn't really be judged the same.
I don't know how or why AEPi does the things it does, but I support their right to maintain their national identity. I wouldn't like a chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha that was composed based on local experiences rather than a national mission.
I recognize this is not the case for many other fraternities that AEPi is frequently compared against.
I also think what "whiteness" means in 2015 has something to do with why locally, some AEPi chapters don't feel the need to be Jewy (in the words of Sarah Silverman).
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