please heeelp

[Rudey]

The problem is that it's not as easy to define as BGLOs are.

And what does it mean?

-Rudey

Originally posted by Wolfman
After reading this "hijacked" thread, I felt a couple of comments need to be made regarding nomenclature. 1) From the perspective of an (this!) African American BGLO member, the "racial" identification of different groups simple reflects historical realites, nothing more and nothing less. So for someone to employ the term "WGLOs" is not meant to be pejorative a bit. This may be an area where there is a perceptional difference amongst caucasians and non-caucasians. 2) Heuristic terms (labels) are only good as their explanatory power. This goes for the cartography of GLOs also. Some respondents, who don't like the term WGLO, use the term NPC or NIC to refer to the same groups. Surely this will not do as it regards the NIC-member groups,which includes two BGLOs, Kappa Alpha Psi and Iota Phi Theta. (And, as most of you may know, some large and old-line "white" fraternities are not members of the NIC,e.g., SAE, etc.) So if membership in a specific council may not have the perfect explanatory power which the racial tag, as a historical indicator (and largely present day also) does have, what does? 3) There seems to be a need for some enlightenment by members of non-BGLO orgs. None of these groups have exclusionary clauses; as one respondent said, some never did, and others like my own expunged them in the late 40s or around abouts (Omega Psi Phi,1949). More importantly,no major GLO I know of has any de jure regulations regarding racial exclusionary clauses. In fact all BGLOs have members of all ethnicities. The difference is that BGLO don't trumpet this. Maybe the "psychological burden" of this historical reality amongst the historically "white" groups makes this a more sensitive issue for them. What's important here is understanding grounded in goodwill and truth,the real foundation for more growth in healthy interpersonal and interorganizational relations.

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