Well said 12dn94dst! I agree. I understand where Corbin is coming from, but on the real, it's all about what your org really is and the principles it was founded upon. So Corbin, what would you like us to call orgs that are predominantly white? Should we just stick to calling a pre-dom. white greek org a GLO and then when we need to specify should we say BGLO, LGLO, MCGLO, AGLO, etc?
How can we solve this cuz it's getting to the point of craziness!!
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Originally posted by 12dn94dst:
 How about "non-BGLO"? Is that better? Or "PWGLO"? Does that work for you?? What would you like to be called when we're comparing and contrasting?? We can't use the umbrella organizations as a point of reference because then the locals and non-affiliated national organizations would be left out. We can't say "greek" either because it would get confusing.
Can we be a little less politically correct and a little more realistic?? Your organizations are HISTORICALLY white and the MAJORITY of the membership is white, just like our orgainzations are HISTORICALLY Black and the MAJORITY of the membership is Black. Guess what else? There are organizations that are HISTORICALLY Asian whose membership is MAJORITY Asian and there are HISTORICALLY Latina/o organizations whose membership is MAJORITY Latina/o. Then there are those who aren't historically or majority one race/ethnicity or another, they're called MULTI-CULTURAL and that's WONDERFUL. We're DIFFERENT. ACKNOWLEDGE, RESPECT and APPRECIATE the differences. Face them, deal with them, grow up and move on.
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