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I'm also an Arican American woman in an NPC sorority. First, my race actually never came to mind when I went thru recruitment, because there were already other African Americans in the NPC's on my campus. Plus, being from the Northeast, I never think race first. My first thought, actually, was appearance: was I pretty enough...
What I think happens is that NPC is never really "marketed" to us by our relations, so we don't think NPC first when we go to college. Also, as sad as it is, "race mixing" (yes, it sounds as oogy as the thought makes you feel) is still an unheard of notion in the mind of people today, so you may HAVE friends of another race, but deep, intense familial bonding with them is still foreign. You won't readily admit it, but it is.
I'm not speaking about anyone on this board, just in generalities. I know that the South still has some very racist areas, but racists are everywhere (there are these new fangled contraptions called cars and planes!!). But so are anti-Semites, homophobes, and a$$holes in general. If you can keep these disgusting characteristics out of your head and home, you may be a catalyst for change!
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