Lack of Ethnic Diversity in Bama's sororities worry future rushee

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I don't know if this is the proper place to say so, but I think it's cool that the OP is an African American NPC legacy. I don't see that too much where I am.

It's a beautiful thing, isn't it! We'll be seeing more of that when our newer African American NPC sisters begin having children. I don't know that every chapter of an NPC group would pledge an african american tomorrow, but I sure hope we are moving in the right direction. I'm just not foolish enough to think that prejudices don't still exist in some places.

To the OP, good luck. I hope you find open women in the Bama chapters who will welcome you with open arms.

[UGAalum94]

This isn't something that the OP should attempt herself by any stretch of the imagination, but is this an area where it might make sense to notify someone higher up in the NPC than just the chapter of the legacy status?

Certainly, the chapter makes its own membership decisions, and I like to think that all the chapters would be delighted to have a well qualified African American PNM legacy come through. But knowing that some cases have made the paper in the past, I wonder if HQs wouldn't want to make sure they were proactive in terms of all policies being followed?

On the other hand, it might make the chapter so angry that they weren't trusted to do the right thing that it would backfire. What do you all think?

I'm emphatically not suggesting that someone attempt to strong arm the chapter, but it just seems like the recipe for a PR disaster if the PNM is dropped that you'd want to make all your i's were dotted on your legacy policy and that every member of the chapter knew your GLOs policies about discrimination.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

It's a beautiful thing, isn't it! We'll be seeing more of that when our newer African American NPC sisters begin having children.

I was just talking about this the other day with one of my sisters.