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i can not agree with that comment, to say losing diversity is a good thing is the same mentality that is in APO today, yes people of different backgrounds, color, religion, sexual orenation, etc.. will have difference of opinions but whne you take that oath to the frat, you dont take a oath to be LEADER to you own kind, to be a FRIEND to only people like to, and only do SERVICE for those you feel are in need. With diversity comes conflict but in a good way, if everyone was the same they there wouldnt be any point to this org. People need to realize the our founder wanted us to be BROTHERS who did service, not people who did SERVICE and then became brothers. APO was for all people. To say that diversity sometimes messes up a chapter because everyone does not see things the same is a prime example of how alot of chapter feel today. there are some black chapters that dont do service with white chapter cause they feel they arent repping the frat the right way and there are some white chapter who do the same thing. That comment is one of the comments that should never come out of a APO brothers mouth in my opinion but you do have a right to your won opinion and im not downing you for you opinion.
And as far as the mulicultrual discussion either, we are a multicultrual org, im not saying we should change the name to APO national multicultrual org, but i an say like brother darden stated, we should promote that we are an org about and for everyone. and there is this confusion about APO and being a social org, its like this ALL minority organizations are SERVICE orgs. what makes people see them as sure is there stepping, party walking, calls traditions, we do the same thing, we have a hand sign, national song, secrets of the org and even a secret hand shake and secret words. we are a frat people. People get so caught up with SERVICE that they miss the brotherhood part or think if they get to much into brotherhood then there trying to be a social org. there is no idfferent of apo and a minority greek and trust me in a minority greek, im in the greek who started the whole stepping, calls, etc.. NO minority greek did that stuff before the 60's. there are also alot of APO chapter who do that stuff, so are they trying to be social?
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