OK, people, lets stop the bitchin. We all know the issue here, and if people decide to have an ethnic gap in their GLO, then fine. I would be hesitant to call that group racist, though, because of the ramifications that go along with using a term like that. Everyone is going to have differing opinions here, and at some point we have to agree to disagree.
If you want your GLO to be race-specific, then do that, and don't feel like you have to go along with people on this board telling you otherwise. If you want your GLO to be ethnic, then do that and don't dog on groups that don't feel the same way.
I think that if you take a look at why there were black fraternities/sororities founded, then you would understand that it is OK to have a race (and gender) specific group. If a black person calls someone non-black a racist, then they should understand that by using that term they are also racist...because their race also has GLO's like ohters do. The same goes for white people calling other groups racist...don't think I am only using black people as the example here.
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