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Originally Posted by AXEAM
Bruh. I agree w/everything you stated in your post.....except the part that we have to change our way of thinking. The black students @ USC welcomed the Omega house (well maybe not the alphas that's an inside joke.)
the problems seem to be w/some white students. Have you ever notice that blacks @ HBCUs never react in this manner towards mostly white orgs on campus.
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Bruh, I think I know what you're saying. The point I was addressing is the result of some--even bruhs--who think that we shouldn't have gotten involved with this project,esp. after this incident. This project is something that the Fraternity wants to parlay into something bigger. I'd be great if an HBCU or two did the same thing and we could do this there. I'm reminded of the documentary about Bro. Percy Julian who brandished a shotgun, daring anybody to mess with him and his family, when arsonists and others tried to run him out of his house when he moved to toney,white Chicago suburb Oak Park, IL. back in the day. If our ancestors ran away from situations where there was some disapproval to our presence, where'd we be today? A bruh in my present grad chapter recently went to South African and he told me that many black South Africans have never been to many of the national sites of interest in their own country. Economics and the awakening that this is now their country is something that is a growing reality there; and in some ways there is residual inferiority or defeatist attitudes amongst our people in certain ways. I had a conversation with a young black woman about politics the other day and she expressed the attitude that Barack Obama shouldn't run because he can't win: the white power structure won't let him get to the top. However one feels about his candidacy on political grounds, this attitude is a bit distressing, seeing how so many risked their lives to enable us to fully participate in the fruits of this country,according to one's desires. That's what I was getting at. And, to be honest, some blacks have negative or ambivalent feelings about the growing white presence in HBCUs, even though you won't find the same kind of response by blacks as in the SC incident. You're right. But the difference centers around this cast/race apartheid mentality by some whites about certain institutions and social spaces and what they represent: the bastion of their culture and civilization; thus we should not transgress on "their" social space.
P.S. I hear you about the Ape beatdown at SC.
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