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What disgusts me even more is the institutionalized racism and prejudice that is still going on in Freemasonry, especially with recognizing the predominantly African-American Prince Hall lodges.
Out of the 51 Grand Lodges in the United States (all 50 states plus DC), 38 out of the 51 recognize Prince Hall in one form or another; with the exception of Virginia and Oklahoma, practically all the grand lodges in states of the former Confederacy do not recognize Prince Hall as regular, or come up with the excuse that only the 'mainstream' (predominantly white) grand lodge has 'exclusive territorial jurisdiction' over all Masons within its boundaries. Any other grand lodge operating within its territory is considered 'irregular and clandestine'.
I am a member of two Grand Lodges; one that does not recognize PHA (Texas) and one that just did (Oklahoma). I hope to God the Grand Lodge of Texas doesn't do something stupid like withdraw its recognition of Oklahoma for its decision to get with modern times. (Mississippi did temporarily withdraw Masonic recognition from Connecticut for the latter's recognition of PHA; pressure from other jurisdictions forced them to re-recognize them.)
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Causa latet vis est notissima - the cause is hidden, the results are well known.
Alpha Alpha (University of Oklahoma) Chapter, #814, 1984
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