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Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands
She insinuated it in so many words. Like her shit is the norm while the weirdos and black peoples are “other” Lol.
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I’m not checking your post to call you out, because you’re not wrong to trip over that. But let’s really frame this with a little context, because the idea that predominantly white fraternities and sororities are the “standard” for Greek life is honestly kind of shaky when you look at the bigger historical lens.
Let’s look at the Greek letters themselves. The letters didn’t originate in isolation. The Greek alphabet evolved from the Phoenician script, which was heavily influenced by ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, meaning Africa and the Mediterranean were the real blueprint for what would become the Greek letters you see today. So even the symbols that white GLOs hold up as “traditional” trace back to Black and brown civilizations.
Go back to us, The Divine Nine. We didn’t just copy what was already there. We turned it into something new, a cultural institution that combined community service, scholarship, social justice, and cultural preservation. It wasn’t imitation, it was transformation.
So yeah, historically white fraternities were first in this country on paper, but that’s not the same thing as defining what Greek life became for Black people. We took an idea that started as a closed door and made it open-hearted for our communities. We planted it in culture, and that’s why it lives.
Are they really the “standard”? Or were they just the starting point? Because there’s a difference. And the difference is what keeps us enduring long after the party’s over. If you look at ours in comparison to theirs, I don’t know why you care or why her comment bothered you. Why are you offended? If you knew your history and knew that when you give Black people an inch, we go a 100 miles with it, I don’t think what was said would eat at you like it’s doing. When they make false comments like that, you really shouldn’t care and it shouldn’t bother you.
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