WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE RACIALLY MIXED?





 I decided to make a video about what it's like to be racially mixed. In it I talk about my experience rushing the sorority system. I decided to tell my story, after reading this article in Marie Claire. I went to school in San Diego and yet I had the same experience these girls had, which tells me this is probably a nation wide problem.

"We were told we do not take black girls, because it would be bad for our chapter—our reputation and our status," says junior Yardena Wolf, 20, a member of Alpha Omicron Pi. "There was a list of girls who were to be dropped from rush," says senior Caroline Bechtel, 21, a member of Phi Mu. "Anyone who was a minority was automatically added to it. Sometimes they'd say things like, 'Oh, she wore an ugly dress,' but it was so obviously wrong, so obviously racism."

http://www.marieclaire.com/world-reports/inspirational-women/revolution-on-sorority-row-september-2014?click=main_sr

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