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Greek Life Under Attack

examples show that segregation causes barriers to be built, and once constructed are very hard to overcome if interaction takes place at a later time. Forcing integration reverses this problem by giving a chance for various backgrounds to interact with each other. This forced integration can also bring many more options to those students who are interested in joining a sorority or fraternity thus increasing the overall memberships of the Greek community. An increased membership along with integration also provides the basis for a more diversified organization. When the Younger family moves to Clybourne Park, they will add diversity to the neighborhood. The same applies for the narrator in ?Aria? when he says that he was ?sent to a school where all my classmates were white? (658). A bigger, more diversified group will have even more chances to interact and learn from each other. It is true that the historical segregation of the fraternities and sororities can also be viewed as racism still alive and at it?s best in America. At the University of Alabama there are still instances where confederate flags are displayed in the windows of fraternity houses. Many African Americans are opposed to this symbol because to them it represents slavery. So if the motives and attitudes of sororities and fraternities are racial administrators feel that they are taking another step towards abolishing racism and discrimination from our country by forcing integration amongst these groups. Without readily admitting it, the Younger family made an early step of integration that would later help to abolish racism and discrimination by moving into a completely white neighborhood. At one point in the story Beneatha even admits that ?there are two things we, as a people, have got to overcome, one is the Klu Klux Klan? (Hansberry 528). On the other hand, the forcefulness of the integration can also be seen as another form of Affirmative Action. Greek ...

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