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Originally posted by dzrose93
If someone had attempted to gain membership into a BGLO and failed (for whatever reasons), publicly proclaimed that they feel they were excluded from joining an NPHC sorority because they were white, and then attempted to go through your intake process again -- wouldn't you be a little skeptical as to their reasons for doing so?
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No, because I've seen it happen personally. I took it as a person who was misjudged by a few people who were narrow-minded and threatened the first time. When they saw the girl come around the second time, it seemed (to the people in question) that she was
really sincere about becoming a member of this particular NPHC sorority, and if anything, they were less suspicious of her actions since she didn't give up.
I think Melody Twilley did the right thing; rather than just accepting her first dismissal as "racism" and then giving up, she asked questions. She thought about the reactions she got when she went through rush. She weighed the good experiences against the bad, and went back a second time. To me, that's not the mark of a troublemaker, or someone out to prove a point. From where I'm sitting, that's the mark of someone who wanted to make
absolutely certain that her ethnicity wasn't the main reason for her dismissal.
I wish I'd had the guts to do that back when it happened to me as an undergraduate. Yes, I went through something similar at my alma mater. Maybe that's why I feel differently about this whole Twilley thing, because I can see where she's coming from.
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