Are Legacies a form of White Privilege?

When ranking top sororities, too often rankings are based on how hard it is to get in rather than how great and DIVERSIFIED the girls actually are.

To me, it is a potential mark of shame on those sororities that still focus too heavily on admitting legacies over leaders.

Let’s be honest. The primary reason certain top sororities are hard to get in is because they are FORCED to take legacies by their legacies. This excludes many people of color that weren’t allowed in certain sororities in the prior generations.

Just because a mom was in a sorority has zero bearing on whether or not the daughter is a great girl. Some will be amazing. Others won’t be. That’s not the issue.

To me, a person that uses a legacy to get into a sorority is simple riding the coattails of a dying system that was originally designed to keep people of color out of sororities using elitist screening methods.

Fortunately most of these legacy oriented sororities are finally trying to make things right, but since so few people of color were ever in their sorority in the first place, it is incredibly difficult for people of color to get in their sorority now without the legacy.

And for this reason sororities that care about racial equality are beginning to IGNORE legacies as an entrance requirement.

Each sorority must decide for itself how it wants to be perceived on this issue. Fortunately, the vast majority of sororities are modernizing their admission standards to solve this problem.