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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
There are plenty of non-african americans in NPHC organizations (Eleanor Roosevelt is a long-time member of Alpha Kappa Alpha). This isn't a recent trend, but has been the case for 30 plus years.
Why is the fate of this fraternity based upon this ONE African American male? I think if people didn't spend so much time putting on a dog and pony show of their minority members (i.e. Hey, we've got ONE minority...now we are DIVERSE!), and just went on about things "business as usual" (i.e. letting your record of service, sister/brotherhood speak for itself), then maybe more minorities would feel more CONFIDENT about joining a NIC/NPC organization (and not feel like an interesting piece of furniture). 
I say CONFIDENT because in general, people are ALWAYS going to have something to say about what you do. 
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Having one minority member is better than having none, would you agree, it shows an attempt at diversity.
I think the problem here is that a lof of historically white organizations actually do try to segregate and diversify the chapters they belong to, but when a situation like this comes to light, people tend to get discouraged.
We face this a lot on our campus. There is a lot of pressure on minority rushees from the BGLOs when they decide to rush a WGLO. It's almost like they are being looked down upon. Kind of like why is he/she rushing a white organization when the should be with us.
This is why this is such a "hang-up" situation. It's not about having just "one" minority member. It's the fact that many wglos do actually try to recruit minorities and a lof of these minority rushees that happen to show some sort of interest in a wglo end up depledging. I think it's mostly due to some type of pressure that is in a way related to this article. (This is form my experience on my campus.)
It gets frustrating when a historically white org does try to recruit minorities and they end up depledging due to pressure, much like the individual in the above article. In the end it shows that many of the "white frats and sororities" are still segregated and aren't diverse when some are actually making an attempt to do so.