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It's an interesting conundrum. I think having racial diversity in a chapter makes it more interesting. But you have to start somewhere and that means you're probably going to pledge 1 black girl and that sort of screams - see? We are diverse! We have A black girl! But if 3 or 4 black girls go through rush at Bama or Ole Miss, and they don't all magically like the single same chapter (and vice versa), that means there is going to be 1 black girl in an otherwise white chapter. And in a chapter of 200, if they did pledge all 3 or 4 black girls, it's still not even a drop in the bucket.
I think the best we can hope for in the near term is eliminating the disregard for a girl outright just because of race. It's going to be pretty hard to avoid a perception of tokenism when there just aren't that many black girls interested in NPC sororities, especially relative to the population of white rushees at the same school. I'm assuming the black southern girl who is interested in the NPC is used to being the only black girl in the room and what she and the chapter thinks is all that matters.
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