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Originally posted by RACooper
Nice to see that an arbitratry standard was set.. one that didn't fly in the face of the reasons for these GLOs founding 
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Given the ideology of the time, the more whiter, the better... It opened doors of gradual acceptance from the white community abroad... That is an ugly fact in time, but it is what happened... And not just in my Sorority, but I have found out in several others, too...
And not just only in sororities and fraternities, but at historically Black Colleges and Universities too... You had to submit a picture with your application... If you blew the top off of tests, then they might have accepted you if you did not pass the paper back test... But if you had little, then, you did not get accepted...
That is why many darker skinned African Americans attended northern and western universities in quickly after University of Alabama was tripping in the 1960s... Then when the predominantly white institutions realized that some of these darker skinned African American men could kick ass in sports, they accepted them with full support that put the HBCU's immediately at a monetary disadvantage...
Resurgence of HBCU attended did not occur until Spike Lee and Bill Cosby highlighted these universities...
The rest is history...
