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I get it, I really do. But it's also hurtful for NPC women to constantly hear, "You aren't doing enough. You're racists. Bama pulled some racist stunt, so all Southern schools are like that." and so on and so on. It is NOT true. Who likes being the butt of generalization?
And we do all have different goals. As I mentioned, I have had little luck interesting the black high school seniors I know well in the NPC because they see these powerful black women (a lot are educators) in our community and that's what they strive to be. I teach in a nearby town and have had the same experience there. Obviously, this is not the norm in some areas.
I'll be talking to this year's crop of seniors but this is the truth--many women and I have knocked ourselves out trying to diversify our groups by doing that and contacting sororities about women who might not be on their radar. But when we see all these posts all over the Net about what failures the NPC groups have been at diversity and what racists we probably all are--this is painful, and I know sorority alums who have given up on helping at all.
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