BGLO and GLO

[KAY10]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

I don't propose anything--I simply don't like labels, in general. I don't think the words "white" and "black" fully encompass all that people are.

Kappa Delta you sound very intelligent and a lot of the things you say make so much sense, and I think it's great you don't label but most people are always going to label. Sad but that's the way this country has always been. People here will always see color and label.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by KAY10

Kappa Delta you sound very intelligent and a lot of the things you say make so much sense, and I think it's great you don't label but most people are always going to label. Sad but that's the way this country has always been. People here will always see color and label.

A lot of people claim not to label in order to convey a point.

Everyone labels. EVERYONE.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

A lot of people claim not to label in order to convey a point.

Everyone labels. EVERYONE.

You're right, everyone labels. And, we don't just label by skin color but by gender, religion, social class, economic class, intelligence, athletic ability, nationality, etc. The danger is when you make assumptions about an individual based on the stereotypes associated with that label. My nationality is Italian and specifically, I'm Sicilian. I've been asked if I have relatives in the mafia simply because I'm Sicilian. Not all Sicilians are in the mafia and it's ignorant to think they are. It isn't having a label that's the problem, it's people's assumptions about you because of that label.

NPC/IFC organizations definitely have a different focus than the Divine 9 and Multicultural GLOs have an even different focus. This doesn't mean that one is better or worse. It just means there are numerous organizations out there designed to meet different people's goals/needs. The hope would be that nobody would be excluded from joining one of those organizations based only on their heritage, if they met all other membership criteria (grades, service, dedication, commitment, etc).

On my campus, wayyyy back in the mid-80's, the NPC/IFC groups and the Divine 9 groups did things together sometimes. The Divine 9 groups were always invited to participate in Greek Week, for example. Some years they voted to do so, others they didn't. I believe we all respected each other because I never heard of any animosity between the groups. And, on my campus, it was during that time period that there started to be integration within the GLOs too. It seemed like everybody just took it in stride, but it was a very diverse campus to begin with.

[KAY10]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

Again, back to the question that I answered: how would they know they could join if no one was asking them to? That's most likely why more "white" (cringes at using that label) people don't join traditionally African American GLOs.

They don't know. That's the chance they take. When I went to the interest meeting for Kappa there were 219 guys there. 7 of us got picked to pledge, 1 dropped out and 6 of us made it in. BGLOs are hard to get into, at least they were on my campus.

[KAY10]

Originally Posted by jubilance1922

Because NPHC orgs don't "recruit".

LOL