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Originally posted by dzrose93
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The reason I made my comment (and I think Killarney made hers, although I won't speak for her on this), is because I feel that the whole Twilley incident was blown so far out of proportion. In talking to some people who have met Twilley, it became apparent that she quite possibly had an "agenda" to rushing - that she wanted to make some kind of statement as to how AA's are "treated" during NPC Rush at a Southern school. Through all of this, she made quite a name for herself, and in every article I've read, that Cherokee has been mentioned -- presumably to suggest that because she has a nice car, she should have been automatically granted entrance to an NPC sorority. The truth is, it doesn't matter what kind of car you drive, what part of the city you live in, or what your daddy does when you go through Rush. It's how the girls themselves perceive you and if they feel you would be a good "fit" in their organization.
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With all due respect dzrose, did you read the article? I'm not trying to be nasty; I'm really trying to understand how you got such a different perception from the same piece I read.
What I got out of it is Melody Twilley was a girl who came from privilege who wanted to join the same organizations as two of her close high school friends. Nowhere in her statements did I get a sense that she had some sort of "agenda". (I got that from the faculty member who adopted Twilley as his personal pet project).
If the people in question had the perception that Twilley was trying to "prove" something, therein lies the real problem - that an African American girl can't pursue membership in an NPC sorority at Alabama without it looking like she has some sort of "agenda". People are already looking at her with suspicion and mistrust without even taking the time to get to know her. She's a threat by virtue of her mere presence -- and that is prejudice in it's purest form.
Can someone from an NPC/NIC organization answer this question? Is determining whether someone has the means to afford the cost of membership part of seeing if someone's a "good fit"? If true, then is Twilley's statement about "having a need" really that much of a gaffe? Isn't financial responsibility to the organization a big part of membership?
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