Dallas-area rapes have sorority asking why

[The Northerner]

Texas police are likewise confounded by why the assailant appears to be targeting older alumnae of Delta Sigma Theta, one of the nation's prominent black sororities.

Reporting from Dallas — Betty Culbreath is normally not a fearful person. That changed when she learned that four women raped in their homes nearby were fellow Delta Sigma Theta sorority alumnae — all in their 50s and 60s.

Culbreath, 70, went out to her car and removed her Delta license plate holder. She heeded the advice of the national president of the sorority to think twice before wearing Delta clothing or accessories, much of it in the sorority's signature color, red.

The crimes "made me fearful, more precautious," she said. "It has made me very conscious about anything that might identify me" as a Delta Sigma Theta.

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[shraby]

1. The newspaper didn't do her any favors if they used her

real name.