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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
Geez, we might as well just start calling everything historically white, since most things in this country were historically white. I guess I'll put in my profile that I'm from historically white Michigan..
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That's what I've been thinking this entire thread. I think that's why people mention things being historically something
other than white. It's not news or out of the norm for things in this country to be historically white, so I think most people assume and/or understand that somthing founded in this country has a dominately white history unless it is distinctly pointed out that it's different. Which is probably why NPHC, Latina, Asian, Multicultural ect. organizations point out their history.
With that said, and knowing we live in a society where no matter how race blind people state they are, there are still racial issues in America. I've read on here several threads started by women of color about their concerns about going NPC, I have never heard of a chapter that has a majority or even a third women of color and about one school that has still never taken a women of color knowingly into any of their chapters (i don't remember the school or the thread right now...too early). Anyway, point is that those things about the history make it seem rational (even if not PC) to most that they are historically white. Challenge is to move past that history and live in the present. There is nothing wrong with that history, it appears to be a fact. As long as you are doing what you say you are doing..which is accepting and loving your sisters of all races...what does it matter?
edited because i can't spell before 8am
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