Blacks that rush NPC

KSUViolet06 · #1 05-01-2008, 05:00 PM

It's possible to get a bid to a sorority if you're black (I did). Granted, I went to a school with a pretty small recruitment in Ohio. It is a very different atmosphere from some of the big schools in Florida like UF. I think some of the smaller FL schools would be a little more relaxed.

Honestly, nobody here can really say how likely you are to get a bid. If you didn't, nobody can really say that it was a race thing (since there are alot of factors that go into deciding who gets a bid). Your best bet is to be who you are, present yourself well, get recs and such if needed, and let the chips fall where they may.

My experience as an active was amazing. I probably bonded more within the chapter than most did because I was very involved and lived in the house. It was never about whether I was black, white, green, whatever. I was just me.

DSTCHAOS · #2 05-01-2008, 05:09 PM

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It was never about whether I was black, white, green, whatever. I was just me.

There aren't green people.

I generally suck at GC searches but has this topic been discussed before?

SigKapSweetie · #3 05-01-2008, 05:17 PM

I went to UF. There were only two or three black members in my chapter during the years I was an active, but there were very few black women who came through NPC rush. As far as I'm concerned, there was no difference in the bonds between sisters of different races. Sisters are sisters!

KSUViolet06 · #4 05-01-2008, 05:36 PM

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There aren't green people.

I generally suck at GC searches but has this topic been discussed before?

Yes. Ad nauseum.

BabyPiNK_FL · #5 05-01-2008, 05:18 PM

God, honey just rush. If they like YOU they like YOU! It's sometimes akward but when you're sisters you really learn to see everyone the same (you really do) and it's never been a big deal for me. I joke about it all the time, too! There are pictures from when I was a collegiate where I'm in the middle and it's just me and I laugh at it, or when people take pics without flash and it's dark so I have to point it out to turn on the flash or I won't show up so good. I find it funny and no one's ever been cuturally insensitive or anything.

And thankfully I was pretty comfortable with the background of my org. before I joined because it's heavily Condefederate. But it is all in the past so I didn't focus on it. (Except when I want to make my chapter Pres. uncomfortable and then I make jokes for days!)

I also had one of those moments when someone was trying to describe me in front of me and I was like "OMG! Say it, I'm black BLACK!" We all laughed so hard. It's just never bothered me at all. But it did help that my chapter was majority hispanic so the white girls are the minority and we teased them for always being together everywhere!

The only problem I've found is when you do things with OTHER chapters. Because you stick out like a sore thumb. But you are proud to be different even then. (Plus pretty much everyone at my chapter stuck out at those things...I have a funny story about my chapter at an LC and some Omega Psi Phis, lemme know if you want me to post!)

#6 05-01-2008, 05:19 PM

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And thankfully I was pretty comfortable with the background of my org. before I joined because it's heavily Condefederate.

Really? Phi Mu is considered heavily Condefederate?

Elephant Walk · #7 05-01-2008, 05:20 PM

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Really? Phi Mu is considered heavily Condefederate?

Confederate.

It has a strong history in the South, yes.

#8 05-01-2008, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Confederate.

It has a strong history in the South, yes.

I know how to spell it, thanks. See the post above mine.

BabyPiNK_FL · #9 05-01-2008, 10:16 PM

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Really? Phi Mu is considered heavily Condefederate?

I didn't mean Phi Mu is Confederate. If you reread it says it's background is. Honorary Philomatheans included Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. That's pretty Confederate. Many Philomatheans belonged to Daughters of the Confederacy or some org. with a similar title and were heavy supporters of the South before and after the war. It's very natural because they were in Macon at the time so I don't take it personal. But I've always joked that back in the day one of my relatives probably involuntarily cleaned up or farmed for the founders or early members of my org. since my family on my dad's side is from all up in GA. (You should see my sisters roll their eyes on this one!) That is what I meant by the fact that I had to be comfortable with that personally.

Thetagirl218 · #10 05-01-2008, 07:17 PM

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God, honey just rush. If they like YOU they like YOU!

Agreed! I am not black, but several members of my sorority were and they always the same thing that said above. They joined Theta because it was for them, not because the color of your skin. At my school (UNF), skin color seemed to have no bearing on where you got a bid.

PANTHERTEKE · #11 05-02-2008, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

I have a funny story about my chapter at an LC and some Omega Psi Phis, lemme know if you want me to post!)

I wanna hear it

BabyPiNK_FL · #12 05-02-2008, 09:15 PM

This is for my homeboy PantherTEKE...

So, some of my chapter sisters go to leadership conference in GA. Omega also happens to be having a conference there. For some reasons, all the other chapters have a curfew that they have to be in their hotel rooms by a certain time. This is foreign to my chapter but I guess because where were from that would be laughed at. So my sisters wander downstairs and basically run into some Omegas having a grand ol' time in the lobby & around and what not. They are just hanging out and the Omegas begin tell my sisters how they were trying to talk to some girls in a sorority and they all said they have curfews and could not stay downstairs. My sisters inform him that they are in the same organization. The Omegas look and them and exclaim that "that can't be, because you're not white!" My sisters also told me had I gone I would have stuck out something fierce and that they stood out a lot too. We had a good long laugh about it. I love when we get together with other chapters because it's always an experience.

I would just like to emphasize that this thread is regarding possible NPC membership, but I too recommend looking into all orgs. before deciding. I did and knew right away that NPHC wasn't for me and I would have joined a multicultural group but the ones on our campus tend to lean toward a specific ethnicity (mainly the founders'). And that didn't sit well with me at the time. Looking back I would have been at home in one of them, but am very happy in my current group.

(ETA: Please don't get caught up in the whole N/S thing, at the end of the day we're all here because we're Greek or interested in Greek Life. I only brought it up because these were issues that I had to look at prior to joining and I wanted to express my experience for the OP.)