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Originally posted by phikappapsiman
How did I end up a Phi Psi? Simply put, it was the best organization for me, and I have brothers that will be my friends for life. Isn't that what greek life is supposed to be about?
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I have no doubt that you percieve this fraternity to be the best thing for you, nor do I doubt that it actually is the best for you, but my question is how did this come about? Were the men in the NPHC frats a bunch of hoodlums? Were they not focused enough? Did they not share your same political views? Style of dress? religious beliefs? Tastes in Music? I guess I am wondering what criteria, subjective or other wise, did you use to make this assumption? Because it would seem strange, to me in my closed mindedness
, to see someone, a Black Man, in America unequivicably state that an organization full of men that don't look like you, an organization that isn't expressly focused on and concerned about your development as a
Black Man in America, is better for you and meets more of your needs and expectations in a fraternity than a fraternity that is expressly concerned with those issues. I am not saying this isn't possible, I just want to be enlightened
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Originally posted by phikappapsiman
Every time I read about race and GLO's, I have to laugh, because I realize how extremely lucky I am to have attended a university where race was NOT an issue (EVERY IFC fraternity at Stanford is integrated, including the traditionally southern ones like Kappa Alpha and Sigma Nu), and to have parents who, while they were a bit sad that I didn't join Omega, TOTALLY supported my decision to join Phi Psi.
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Seeing that no one has really responded to my last posting, I will assume no one got the point, so I will make it plain,
space integration does not and did not end racial inequalities!!! You say Stanford had no "race issues" and you justify this by noting that every IFC frat was integrated. So you are saying that Omega Psi Phi now has the same resources and Phi Kappa Psi? Did Phi Beta Sigma donate the same amount of money to a philanthropy as Sigma NU? Did (my dear) Alpha Phi Alpha place in the homecomming float pagent (hypothetically)? My point is spacial integration is a smokscreen, taking our sights off of true equality and diversity, Power and resource integration!!!!!!
Blackwatch!!!!!!