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If you’re not Black and you REALLY truly understand the purpose and foundation of BLACK fraternities and sororities and care about the experiences of Black women and men in this country you would not seek membership. And here’s why:
1. They weren’t created for you. And that’s okay. You didn’t need them. It wasn’t important for you or your community to see Black people in higher education leading and making a change.
2. It’s selfish of you. How many spaces can you go into and say wow look at all these people who look exactly like me and are educated, have the same goals/mindset and come from a similar background as me. Plenty. I’m sure. Bc that’s the country we live in.
How many do us Black women have? How many do Black men have? Very few. BGLO being one of those few. So why would you want to change that for us? Where we have a space where it’s just us thriving, supporting each other and sharing our experiences and our struggles?
Why would you want to strip that from us? Us FINALLY seeing a room full of likeminded people that LOOK LIKE US. When we could go into any board room, any staff meeting, any classroom and see people that look like you where WE are the minority?
Where we’re the only ones that look like us. And where we’re looked DOWN ON because of it. But y’all try to say oh well now I’m the minority and I’m getting to experience it because now no one looks like me.
But that’s not even how it works. Because as you all have seen when a Non Black person enters these Black spaces they’re PRAISED for it! Like they did something spectacular because they’re now the minority.
But when we’re in those other spaces it’s “How did she get here?” “Affirmative action got you here” “they were only trying to make their diversity quota” it’s STILL not the same.
So in short, if you REALLY TRULY cared about your Black brothers and sisters you would leave our spaces to be for US. So that we can have those moments to just be us and celebrate us without having to add you too.
Because in ANY other space and any other place, you’re added you’re there without a shadow of a doubt. We just want a few where we can look around and say wow look at all these Black women/men, achieving. Working hard. Creating. Etc.
You don’t care about Black people like you think you do if you don’t want to see us be celebrated WITHOUT YOU.
Sincerely,
Geraldine Huggins
Sincerely,
Geraldine Huggins
