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Originally posted by Reds6
If most of your OLDER GLO's were founded at schools during a time when minorities weren't allowed to attend, then they are historically white GLO's. Who else was there to join? Again not trying to be disrespectful and call yourself what you want I'm just trying to clarify why we oftern refer to you as historically or white.
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I understand your intensions were not rude, but clarification of why members of non-NPC orgs call us "historically white" doesn't excuse the disrespect that
some of us feel, when we're all thrown into that generalization.
I think both of us are coming from two different sides of this; you're org was founded for African American women at a predominantly African American university, while mine was designed to "promote open membership to all women of character regardless of background." So you may not think that there's anything bad about being called "historically black", "white", etc. but in my case, the only thing Phi Sigma Sigma should be referred to, if not as just an NPC organization, is as "historically diverse" (or something similar) fraternity.
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