Alabama, your message was very disturbing. Here you talk about if you wanted to say you were proud to be a White woman you would be labeled a racist. Not true, You can be a proud White woman, just as I a proud Black woman. However, where you go wrong is that the Black Sororities and fraternities do not say they are for "only" Blacks. As you said, you would be labeled for wanting to keep your Sorority all White. Furthermore, as far as the individuals that you have had problems with in Iowa, they are a select few. You can not try to generalize an entire group of people based on what some said to you. If that were the case I suppose that I should say that all White men or teenage boys are murderers, serial killers and the such. I guess I should be afraid to be in an area with all Whites because who knows when a young teenage White boy will come and start shooting. Who knows if there's a serial killer out there just waiting for me. Furthermore, I guess I should assume that all White women are liars and will blame anything on a Black man because she knows that she can put her children in a car and let the car sink in a Lake or whatever and then blame a Black man and no one think anything of it. Now, you explain that to me, you tell me about the world and why it's so messed up. I appreciate different opinions and I appreciate people sharing their personal struggles and successes, however, I do not appreciate when you tempt to generalize Black men and lump them into a category. Now, is that really fair. Now, kind of jumping back to why we are so proud to Black women and to be apart of our certain Sororities. I am a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. The first Greek lettered Sorority, by and for Black women. I am proud to be a part of this sorority and proud that there are several prominant, distinguished women of color in my sorority. I am proud that I am a part of something so great and this gives me pride to see many successful, well rounded Black women. I am a 2nd year Law Student and just looking at the constitution itself, and looking at history and tradition, the US never had a history of accepting any Black people. The Constitution was not written with any Black people in mind,remember we were not citizens then. So, if you ask me why am I proud to be a Black woman, I sit in a society who is not accepting, only tolerant of my being. And tolerance is not what we want.. We are proud of where we have come in such a short time. And even today, people want to sugarcoat the way things truly are and the way this world works and the things that this country decides to call values. Nothing was made with AFrican Americans in mind. So, why you sit and wonder why we need to be strong Black women, until you can walk in our shoes, I guess you would not understand. However, you should be proud to say you are a White woman. I wonder why most of you do not, not becuase you are afraid of being called racist. That should be the last thing. You worry about slavery and say you never owned slaves or anything, you didn't have to. As long as you are still BENEFITING from oppression of others, if you are, then apprantely it is your own so-called guilt. For the most part Black people do not blame all White things for everything and we do not have to always go back to slavery. However, Slavery is something that should never be forgotten and that is something that I believe people try to do. I do not mean to continue and ramble on, as you can tell I am a Law student and will become an attorney
. But Alabama, you sound very angry and bitter. And with all due respect, you should be very bitter against those INDIVIDUALS who were disrespectful to you. But please, don't try to take it out on the entire group. You say you never owned slaves and so forth, well we all did not disrespect you either. This is just food for thought....And of course, if I forgot to include anything, be sure that I will be back on this message board
.. and to my fellow Sorors, represent!!!