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Originally Posted by Senusret I
So by remediation, do you mean there should be classes and workshops on etiquette, how to tie a tie, how to enjoy the opera, etc?
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This reminds of an incident at a District Council meeting I attended when I lived in the Los Angeles area. An undergrad came to the meeting dressed in street clothes (a nice pair of jeans and a shirt) and he slouched in his chair when he sat down. The chair stopped the meeting and reminded him that the attire for the meeting was business (suit and tie) and then and the Brothers went on to speak to him about how to conduct oneself in a business context and to be a proud, black professional man.
And I had a long conversation the other day about acculturation issues and "shifting" with a Brother in my present chapter who struggled with this. What helped him resolve this was his LB. His LB, who is a VP at TIAA-Cref in NYC, is an "owt Bruh." He'd never seen him outside of a Fraternity or social context. When he saw him in his business environment, he thought that this was a different person. This helped him resolve some of his ambivalent feelings surrounding some of things he'd faced. The fraternal context is a perfect place to broach this issue (and others!)
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