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Originally posted by zchi2
I know people would never dream of saying anything negative about their organization, but I find somethings weird when topics such as this are brought up. Everyone always says that they NEVER had any issues in their fraternity or sorority because they are in the minority. I'm not saying there is racism in every NPC/IFC chapter, but I know there has to be racism somewhere. Someone has to know at least one person in another group that had a hard time or do we just not pay attention to things like that? No one ever said or did anything that was offensive? If it is ignored how can it be corrected? I am just waiting for a story of someone talking about how their sisters/brothers made stupid remarks or had a wrong stereotype about a their group and they had to educate them. I don't know, maybe sisterly and brotherly love just removes all ignorance???
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I'm coming to the conclusion that most of us here are more intelligent than the average bear. Most of us aren't ignorant racists who live under a rock and sit around and complain that all the blacks, Asians, etc. are ruining the world. Most of us here on GreekChat aren't what people consider to be the stereotypical Greek. We know how to have a good time, but most of us are anti-hazing, big on risk management, and most of all, big on brotherhood and sisterhood.
I will admit, in a perfect world, there wouldn't be a need for black/white/multicultural/asian fraternities and sororities because we all SHOULD be multicultural. But some morons way back when decided their skin color was better than others, and we've been fighting the consequences ever since. I know the world's not perfect, and it's our job to fix it. I'm not trying to blow sunshine up people's asses and be all inspirational... I'm saying what I truly believe and what I truly wish things could be like.
In my chapter, we have a nice mix of girls from different backgrounds, but I will admit that we are predominantly white. We've had only one problem with being supposedly racist, and it wasn't anything we actually did. When I went through rush, there was one African-American girl and two girls from the Caribbean going through with me. I know one of them for sure was actually really high on our bid list, but she and the other two went XYZ. They are great women, and they all lived on my floor. The next semester, another African-American girl joined XYZ. Well, the next year at Formal Recruitment, someone told all the girls that Alpha Phi was racist and didn't take anyone but white girls. We found this out after the fact, and boy were we pissed. We didn't know why another girl from the Caribbean was so hostile towards us, but it made sense once we figured things out. I'm still really pissed about it, to be honest, because I don't know how we would have ever given that impression. Also, we have girls from other different ethnicities, so why would we single out African American or Caribbean girls?
I'm hoping this year we proved our point, because we teamed up with the Caribbean Students Association girls for flag-football and everyone had a blast. Those girls are awesome, and I would love for them to be sisters, but CSA is like a fraternity/sorority in itself, so they probably wouldn't join because they're busy enough.
