Winners, losers emerge in UA sorority race debate

Originally Posted by MysticCat

If you've been doing your part to change things over the last 20 years, then I'm sure that you're well aware that generally, "minorities" means non-whites, and that the word has not just situational meanings (like a white person in an NPHC org), but deeper and broader historical and cultural meanings.

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From Dictionary.com "minority."

3. group differing, especially in race, religion, or ethnic background, from the majority of a population

There was a time I was a minority at my job. I certainly was a minority at Bidgood Hall (the building that housed the school of business when I was at Alabama) and I was a minority when I worked in Haiti.

Oh and I have watched this forum for a while here and there. Even though I am retired, I don't have the time or inclination to make 100s of posting on chat boards.

So that being said, if anyone has the information and wants to be kind enough to ask the question originally asked, thank you.

I won't respond further to immature and rude comments.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Bama54

From Dictionary.com "minority."

3. group differing, especially in race, religion, or ethnic background, from the majority of a population.

And in this country, unlike Haiti, the majority of the population is white, so the minority is non-white. People, particularly white people, who use the words "minority" or "minorities" without further explanation or qualification rarely if ever mean anything else unless they (1) qualify how they were or are a minority, like by being a white student at an HBCU, and (2) are trying to suggest that that experience gives them an understanding of what it's like to be non-white in American society.