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Just from what I have seen being in the south, sometimes I think the lack of diversity in NPC and NPHC is not so much the chapters, but the racial atmosphere of the surrounding area. At my university, there was a lot of racism from the professors and they made no effort to hide it. The minority population complained to the administration about the fact that there were only 3 minority profs. at the university. The racism was so bad that police on campus would stop random black male students and ask them for ID's as if they did not belong on the campus. Several of the professors assumed that the students of color were poor, ignorant, and uneducated because many people in that area were even though many of the students were not even from the area. My point is, with all this going on, why would you want to pledge a historically white org in the midst of racism. The sisters in XYZ could have been very tolerant and raised in a multicultural society, but the best attitude will not change the mindset of the people that would have been an asset to your org.
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