Keep It to Yourselves

A while ago, I saw that a long-adult, former fraternity brother named Jeremiah Crespo posted this to Twitter:

Fraternity Men account for 2% of the American population. Since 1825, that 2% has accounted for:
- 80% of Fortune 500 executives
- 76% of U.S. senators/congressmen
- 85% of Supreme Court justices

[Capitalization in the original.]

Crespo vaguely cited Cornell (University?) as the source. I'm not sure if he meant these results are from research done at Cornell or were compiled from the fraternities at Cornell. He concluded the tweet with this statement, as if it were a fact: "Greek life teaches, builds, and prepares its members to succeed."

Imagine posting that as a conclusion, rather than acknowledging that fraternities build lifelong networks of men (by definition) who know each other and hoard opportunities for each other and their descendants, who are often in the same fraternities. How unconscious do you have to be of your structural advantages to post something like this?

Pretty unconscious.