Has the NPHC lost it's focus?

[PrettyKitty]

I was reading Soror Shelacious' post on the APA board and I believe she raised some excellent points that got me to wondering about the focus of the NPHC...

I do agree with you. In my candid opinion, the NPHC is possibly about unification on a global level, but the NPHC has little to do with how members of the NPHC relate to one another on their campus or in the smaller community. What I have noticed is that most BGL folks DO have defined very real prejudices about other organizations--not about a specific chapter, but about the ENTIRE ORGANIZATION. As such, seems to me that it makes it difficult to have empathy about your fellow BGL member or your fellow BGL organization if you could "never see yourself in that organization" or you would " die before you joined XYZ" or you think that "XYZs are ghetto, stupid, country, weak, stuck-up, fat, sorry, skaters". If I truly felt that way about AKA, for example, why would I EVER want to work with or even have any sort of relationship with a vast majority of its members???? I certainly would have no desire to work with people in a volunteer capacity that I will not get along with, won't like and think of as "less" than myself.


BGL members have created an environment on some campuses and in some communities that run counter to the messages espoused by the NPHC. We like our organizations autocratic, and we like to create our own programs and processes outside of the NPHC to more clearly outline the differences between the organizations. We know that all of our organizations were founded under similar principles (the party line), but we also know that it is our DIFFERENCES that enable guy Friday or girl Tuesday to select ABC over XYZ. This environment has been around for so many years and so many generations, that I don't know if it will ever be overshadowed by the unifying concept of the NPHC (the NPC has done a much better job of this, but with some loss of organizational individuality). The solution: well, there are several, but they involve a radical thought process changes or tragic events within the NPHC, which I'm not sure I even buy into.

Has the NPHC failed b/c we have failed to fix this environment that has created a "division is better than unity" mentality?