Barbara, quite nicely put. I have to agree. I am sorry that you had a bad experience, it's truely a tragedy, in my eyes, that you were 'tricked', so to say, into believing that your chapter of your fraternity stood for something you believed in. However, you can not sum up the entire 'white'GLO (as you call them) experience by what your one chapter did. You are one person, with one experience. Surely you don't believe that ALL GLO's are this way.
"During rush everyone told me the whole bullcrap about how they "strive for diversity" or how "we treat brothers all the same". However this is not the case."
This is the case for most GLO's. Again, you had one experience. You can not speak for every member of all GLO's with this statement
"How can an organization treat everyone the same when it was created in a society that subconconsciously teaches us to place a value on someone because of the color of their skin?"
Weren't BGLO's created to uplift the Black Community? I have nothing against BGLO's OR their cause, but you can't say that they weren't created to place value on a group of people with one skin color. Besides that, many GLO's today are almost, if not 100 years old or more. Things change. GLO's today do not share the same mentality or belief system as their founders on EVERYTHING.
"I thought that alumni support as well as life commitment were important in joining a fraternity. "We have the greatest Alumni support", said the rush chair, "We also believe that members of this fraternity are members for life, not just up until you graduate."
Sometimes alumni don't contribute to their chapter after graduation. I, for instance, live 8 hrs. from my chapter. I have a job, a fiance, a house, a different life. That doesn't mean that I don't support my organizations, it just means I'm not active in my original chapter. Most (if not all) national GLO's DO consider you a member for life, even if you don't participate in anything after graduation--or initiation for that matter.
"BGLO's may not be upfront about their entire "process" to non-members, but they certainly wont ever lie to you what they're about and what their purpose is."
I'm not saying they do, but how would you know if you've never been through the BGLO experience.
"Why am I writing this annoying post? In case some naieve freshmen are going through rush and wanted to know the experience of someone who had a similar situation."
It's good to let people know your situation. It's a learning expeirence not only for you, but for many of us. My only advice would be to step back are read what you wrote. You seem to sum up all "white" GLO's with your single experience. Your one experience can't speak for every person's experience. What you just said might also turn someone away from the greek system entirely, then they would be missing out on a chance of a lifetime. I'm sure there are many people out there that joined GLO's of a different ethnic background that are perfectly happy with what they chose. Don't try to speak for them all.
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