[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by amillionlights

That's not what DeltaBetaBaby is saying. It's truly great that your grandchildren in your situation will have recs/legacy status - it's wonderful for them! But historically, people of color have not had the same opportunities to become members of historically white GLOs as white people. Therefore, as a whole, they have fewer opportunities to be legacies/find recs. It's an institutional issue, not an individual one.

Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge

Of course a child of color who is adopted by a white family would have access to recs and legacy status. That's the privilege of whiteness in this case.

The African American valedictorian, volleyball/women's basketball captain, student government president of a predominately black DC Public School will not have the same opportunity. She is not only far less likely to have NPC members in her family, but she's unlikely to have NPC members in her community.

A Latina with similar credentials would be even worse off, as her community and family is less likely to be college educated at all in a city like DC, so while the black achiever has the potential for NPHC connections, the Latina achiever has none.

The institution itself is actually racist. This is before you even get to the question of whether "Rhonda" is "Kappa" or not.

Exactly.