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“It was a threat. It was a way of saying, ‘Black people can clean our houses, but they can’t move in next door,’” Reginald McCall, former president of the Pan-Greek Council — which is made up of the four black fraternities and three black sororities on campus — told AP News in March of 1986. At the time, two white students were detained, but no charges were filed. Alexus used her TikTok platform to share the horrid history between white sororities and Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Alexus Cumbie says her intention with posting the toxic past between Black students and Greek life at UA was to introduce others to UA’s history, in hopes that they’ll do their own research to affect its present. “Since posting the TikTok that shared the troubling history of Black sororities attempting to desegregate sorority row, I have had two presidents of Panhellenic sororities reach out to me,” Alexus says. “They are apologizing for the history of their chapters and asking real questions about how they can build a more inclusive greek life environment. They are asking about how they can have a more inclusive Rush process.
Networking and social life are key components of why students choose to endure the negative experiences, but it doesn’t dismiss the broken policies being withheld inside these organizations. Although current members might feel removed from their founders’ statutes — that are firmly based in classism and discrimination — real change can only come once there’s an evaluation of the foundation.
“It means a lot for students to see our homes on fraternity and sorority row,” Alexus says, “because it signals that we belong in Greek life just as much as anyone else.”
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