<p>Hi, I am curious of how the rush process goes for an AA joining a traditional (social) white fraternity. I'm an AA from Ohio and not interested in AA fraternities. I basically just want to know if is harder to get a bid, if the pledging "non-hazing" stuff is worst, and if it is rougher living with the brothers in the house. If you can talk about Miami University of Ohio too that would be helpful.</p>
I’m not white either and I got a bid at my Fraternity. Our fraternity accepted all ethnicities. It wasn’t a thing we looked at. We just wanted to know if you would be a good addition to the team as in if you would help the fraternity grow. Make sure you join a NIC fraternity. These are the traditional ones that are governed by the school’s IFC. Also, join a fraternity that accepts you. Why would you want to live with a bunch of racists?
@HDMADCK I mean is there a lot of covert racism, not obvious stuff.
Unfortunately, the photo galleries of many fraternities indicate a high level of racial segregation at many campuses, although it appears to be slightly less with fraternities than sororities. Whether that is due to lack of interest in fraternities that are mostly of a different race among potential pledges, or a tendency of the fraternities not to accept potential pledges of a different race is another question altogether.
This is going to completely depend on your university, the specific chapter that you end up joining, and the young men that you join with. At some universities the Greek systems are almost completely segregated, with very few people of color joining IFC fraternities. At other universities the chapters are very diverse. And even at universities where the Greek systems are currently very segregated, that doesn’t mean that you would have a difficult time joining an all-white fraternity or that they would treat you with covert racism if you did join. On the flip side, superficial racial diversity doesn’t mean that there isn’t covert racism or micro aggressions.
Basically, there’s really no way to know or predict this. You would really have to join and find out yourself. The closest thing you might get to finding out is checking out the current chapters at Miami and then talking to any brothers of color you might meet.