Just read this thread today, and let me tell you I'm kind of upset.
First off me being a MINORITY in a historically WHITE fraternity as some would say, I feel kind of bad for this young man. He kind of was like most young men going to college they meet new people, have new experiences and isn't that what college is all about. He could have just as good an experience in a NIC fraternity than in a traditionally african-american fraternity and vice versa. Who knows because now he will never have that opportunity. I don't think what his mother did was appropriate especially for a parent. That's absurd, she had the right to be dissatisfied but not to threaten her own son that's just ignorant. When I first got to college I looked at the predominately Latino Greeks on campus and even rushed and found out it did not fit who I was. I joined DeltaSig out of comfort and what I felt was best for me. I hate it when people try to ASSUME what they feel is best for others, let people live their lives the way they want, its a free country for God's Sake, FREE that's why we have 250,000 servicemen and women in the middle east at this time. I also don't understand the arguement that it was technically o.k. for the family to be prejudice, yeah PREJUDICE against their young mans decision and then have the audacity to corner him with only joining a Black Fraternity. That's racism I don't care how u look at it. And for everyone's info some of my good friends are in historically black fraternities (A phi A, Kappa) and they even told me that the situation was pretty messed up, but they also agreed that the mother was acting out in prejudice. Sorry y'all I'm pist
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