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Originally posted by cash78mere:
But, my letters do not mean more to me that my friend's health.
To the person who asked about supporting black neighborhoods with our community service. Let me ask you----are you supporting poor white communities? I doubt it. Are they not as deserving? They are people after all. GLO's do not chose the color of the people that they help. We help anyone and everyone. When I volunteer at a women's shelter, I don't care if I am helping a black woman or a white woman......I am helpng a WOMAN. Period.
I am secure in myself and my GLO. We are positive, supportive groups who will help anyone in need. And I am extremely proud of that.
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I agree with this 110% -- we help anyone in need -- and no it has never mattered to me what color skin the women and children at shelters have -- usually their skin is black and blue from being beaten. And what are we on here doing? BEATING each other because we are comparing APPLES AND ORANGES!
Apples = BGLO standards of never letting another person wear their letters....Oranges = WGLO standards of frat brothers showing their love for a woman by pinning or lavelering her. APPLES AND ORANGES, PEOPLE! And contrary to the quite popular belief on here - NEITHER IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER. Its about da%& time that we
ALL came to realize that.
We are here to learn from each other -- and as the dead horse lying there stinking with flies around it has already shown, we will never be able to discuss race issues on here with any type of positive outcome. All we do is continually draw those same lines over and over and
DARE each other to cross them with our words.
We will never understand the workings of each other's orgs because we will never be in them -- so why say "don't EVER say" anything when none of us can "EVER" say and be 100% correct on any org other than our own?!
And I will just go ahead and throw this in since it seems to be 100% perfectly acceptable to label one group but not another -- calling someone a "Redneck" is just as derrogatory as calling someone else an innappropriate slur. Here is a little quote from the book "The Ballad of Frankie Silver" by Sharyn McCrumb:
"Political correctness [does] not require tolerance or courtesy to white Southerners." I think that quote speaks volumes about how people speak negatively of one group everyday out in public with no thought as to what they are saying, yet have a freaking cow if someone were to use such a slur towards another group.
Racism is not a one-way street --- it is never right to hate/treat differently/show a lack of respect/call names/etc. regardless of what color skin a person has. NEVER NEVER NEVER - because if you say its not okay for one person to do it to you, then it sure the hell shouldn't be okay for you to do it to another person. Don't make excuses for yourself -- be yourself -- let other people see you for what you are and for who you are -- we are only responsible for how we personally act towards others. We sure aren't here to do the judging!!!