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I don't want this to turn into a flurry of white people saying, "My parents wouldn't care one way or another if I joined a black GLO," but the truth is that's probably what will happen.
My mother is very anti-sorority -- she didn't want me to join one at all; she said they were too "fluffy" and I wouldn't get anything meaningful out of one. But from her views I can deduce that she would probably prefer me in a primarily black organization because at least then it would be an educational experience! My dad would feel similarly, although he was less anti-sorority than my mother. And as for the majority of my white friends' parents, the most severe reaction I can imagine from most of them is a raised eyebrow.
That's not the issue at hand, however.
I don't really think the family members in the article were WRONG, just misguided -- they were just concerned that Alexander would be treated as a token, not accepted as himself, and that this would be less likely to happen in a primarily black fraternity. I guess we won't get to know whether or not this would have actually been the case now though.
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