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Originally Posted by carnation
There is a myth that no members share membership selection information at all; that we are all close-lipped. On the contrary, I have heard what has gone on in several membership selection sessions of other sororities, usually because one or more members is outraged at what went down.
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I am not certain whether I ever shared this on GC, because I often type it but then delete it because I didn't want to out the girl, but...
One of my interns, several years and many jobs ago, was a sorority member at an SEC school.
We had frank conversations about race and she said that she knew a fact that her sorority would not pledge a black girl.
She said she wouldn't personally want to put the girl in a position where she'd have a miserable time.
She talked around the elephant in the room, which was that there were racists in her chapter.
HOPEFULLY I was able to drop a nugget of wisdom about the problem with being a bystander to racism. It's not noble to be silent in the face of prejudice.
People of color need to be able to trust that the white people in their lives will call out shenanigans in membership selection.