[Empress0105]

I am a little disturbed by this article..and I have a few questions...

The first and foremost thing that I notice here is that this author, and apparently some of you guys also, has such blantant ignorance and disrepect for the NPHC sororities. For those of you who don't know what they are...they are:

Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1908
Delta Sigma Theta, 1913
Zeta Phi Beta, 1920
Sigma Gamma Rho, 1922

Let me say that while three of the four were founded on an HBCU campus (MY campus to be exact), and all four are predominantly African American, they are not exclusively "black" sororities. The author says several times to let the alleged members "stay in their little world ad leave ours alone" or things encourageing the seperation of the "Greek Town" from the NPHC organizations (of which there are a total of nine). I ask:
1. I am sure that at least one of these orgs exsists on her campus, but why are they not included in this "greek Town"?
2. Are you sure these are members of the said sorority? I remember quite a few times reading in MY school paper where other fraternities dressed up in the letters o fNPHC fraternity letters in black face and such...it could be a horrible prank, done by people wearing letters that weren't theirs, or even as an act of "payback"...I am quite sure even the freshest neo of one of these orgs wouldn't be malicious enough (or stupid enough) to destroy the property of another organization.
3. So she has never heard of these organizations...so what? I never heard of 95% of the orgs on here until I joined...I was under the impression when you saw letters you didn't recognize, that you asked what they were about, or did your own research. I am offended by her lack of respect and I am not a member of any of these orgs. To belittle them by calling the NPHC world "liitle", and implying insignificant...tells me she doesnt truly understand what it means to be Greek.
4. Why shouldn't the non-NPHC orgs work with NPHC orgs? If you truly feel that issues like this are important and want to stop them from happening again...some workshops, prgrams, joint service projects SOMETHING needs to happen! Just sitting back and setteling for some old jim Crow-ish seperation is backwards...and I say Jim Crow, because based on this article, it sounds like shefeels this is a Black Greek vs White Greek thing
5. I truly suggest that whoever doesn't know about the history of any of the NPHC orgs, go and look up their info and learn...I have spent the past two months learning about several otehr organizations that I may never have even given a second thought to...and I must say that many of them sound very interesting..and I would never have known about them had I not done my research.

Ignorance isn't bliss...it's the crap that lowers the national average of intelligence....