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Originally posted by librasoul22
Actually if your organization is still predominately white (by a large margin as you have indicated), then would you consider it inaccurate to call it a PWGLO? I don't understand your logic as to why you disagree with the term HWGLO? It IS a HWGLO. Are you trying to deny it in order to attract minorites who might not otherwise know that you are a HWGLO? If so, you might want to reconsider. What percentage of your own chapter is non-white? If it mirrors the national body of your org, then it is visually OBVIOUS that your org is HW, PW, etc. No matter what letters you use in front of GLO, whether it be B, HB, W, HW, PW, ABCDEF... the numbers speak for themselves. The labels just serve as reminders.
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I agree - and I'll even take it another level:
Regardless of the make-up of my chapter currently (which actually pretty closely mirrors the overall campus population), I am still a member of a historically white GLO. This is because the members of my fraternity were, for a long period in history, white - not because we are currently 'white' as nothing could be further from the truth.
There shouldn't be an issue here - we're not saying it's a historically racist GLO . . . these are value-neutral words here, it's only personalizing it that gives negative connotation.