Student organizes 'White Student Union' at Georgia State University

[OriginalShroom]

I love it.

According to the article the school is nearly evenly divided between White and Black students and no one has any problem with the Black Student Union. So why shouldn't there be a White Student Union?

It's good to see that there are young people out there with the backbone to take these issues on like this. If it is racist to form a White Student Union then it racist to have a Black Student Union.

Attacking theses institutional forms of racism and sexism need to be done.

Student Patrick Sharp organizes 'White Student Union' at Georgia State University | wtsp.com

A new student club at Georgia State University is attracting more attention than most new student clubs do -- just the club's name is stirring up controversy.

The first-year student at Georgia State who organized the club is calling it the "White Student Union."

Photo Gallery: Student organizes "White Student Union"

The organizer, Patrick Sharp, insisted Wednesday night that no one should have any cause for worry or concern.

Sharp said he has heard objections from students about the club's name, and he understands why some are objecting.

But he's hoping no one will pre-judge him or his club.

"I decided to organize a White Student Union," he said, simply.

He started posting flyers this summer on the downtown Atlanta campus of Georgia State University.

Sharp said when he started his first year during this summer term, he noticed there were many other student clubs devoted to various racial and ethnic interests.

So he started the White Student Union.

He said five or six students have joined so far.

"I sort of took it upon myself, kind of with inspiration from Matthew Heimbach's group in Maryland, at Towson University," which is also called the White Student Union, to form a similar club at GSU, Sharp said.

The White Student Union at Towson University has been accused of being a hate group, which Heimbach has denied.

At GSU, the group "Progressive Student Alliance" has posted flyers on campus against Sharp's club, equating his club with white supremacists.

"You know, to say this is some closeted or curtained white supremacy, it's pretty -- and I'll go ahead and turn their words around on them -- it's pretty ignorant and close-minded," Sharp said. "It's a pride organization, it's a cultural organization, what we have is not hate for any other group... Whites are becoming a minority... We have a voice, we're unique people, and we have every right to make that voice heard."

The new club has stirred up controversy not only among students at Georgia State, but also among students at other colleges and universities.

Amanda Miller just graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, and was at GSU Wednesday night waiting for a friend who was taking a final exam.

"I think to have a white student association is kind of ridiculous," Miller, who is white, said. "I mean, on one level, I understand wanting to connect with your heritage," and she said she might be interested in participating with others who share her family's background, which is Irish and Norwegian. "I don't feel the need to join a white student association. I'm happy to connect with my personal, cultural roots. But a white student association sounds a little, I don't know, I could see how it could go very wrong."

GSU Senior Stephanie-Joy Rhoden, an African American: "It's just the name, I think, really to be honest" that raises concerns for many. "That might make you go to that place in your head where you're, like, whoa, wait a minute, what's that about."

 

[MACAULAY]

This is just one of the signs that people are very tired of having the Race Card played on them on any and all occasions. Tired of affirmative action. Tired of funding the Government Plantation.

Shallow babblers and knavish agitators like Al Sharpton and Jess Jackson, who are destitute of principal, are finally going out of style. No more race-shakedowns.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

I'm waiting for the "WCC" or "White Congressional Caucus."

 

[OriginalShroom]

This is just one of the signs that people are very tired of having the Race Card played on them on any and all occasions. Tired of affirmative action. Tired of funding the Government Plantation.

Shallow babblers and knavish agitators like Al Sharpton and Jess Jackson, who are destitute of principal, are finally going out of style. No more race-shakedowns.

Exactly

 

[R.C. Christian]

Since pure white people are actually a minority in this country, then nobody should have any room to complain, but they will anyway.

 

[bodecea]

I love it.

According to the article the school is nearly evenly divided between White and Black students and no one has any problem with the Black Student Union. So why shouldn't there be a White Student Union?

It's good to see that there are young people out there with the backbone to take these issues on like this. If it is racist to form a White Student Union then it racist to have a Black Student Union.

Attacking theses institutional forms of racism and sexism need to be done.

Student Patrick Sharp organizes 'White Student Union' at Georgia State University | wtsp.com

A new student club at Georgia State University is attracting more attention than most new student clubs do -- just the club's name is stirring up controversy.

The first-year student at Georgia State who organized the club is calling it the "White Student Union."

Photo Gallery: Student organizes "White Student Union"

The organizer, Patrick Sharp, insisted Wednesday night that no one should have any cause for worry or concern.

Sharp said he has heard objections from students about the club's name, and he understands why some are objecting.

But he's hoping no one will pre-judge him or his club.

"I decided to organize a White Student Union," he said, simply.

He started posting flyers this summer on the downtown Atlanta campus of Georgia State University.

Sharp said when he started his first year during this summer term, he noticed there were many other student clubs devoted to various racial and ethnic interests.

So he started the White Student Union.

He said five or six students have joined so far.

"I sort of took it upon myself, kind of with inspiration from Matthew Heimbach's group in Maryland, at Towson University," which is also called the White Student Union, to form a similar club at GSU, Sharp said.

The White Student Union at Towson University has been accused of being a hate group, which Heimbach has denied.

At GSU, the group "Progressive Student Alliance" has posted flyers on campus against Sharp's club, equating his club with white supremacists.

"You know, to say this is some closeted or curtained white supremacy, it's pretty -- and I'll go ahead and turn their words around on them -- it's pretty ignorant and close-minded," Sharp said. "It's a pride organization, it's a cultural organization, what we have is not hate for any other group... Whites are becoming a minority... We have a voice, we're unique people, and we have every right to make that voice heard."

The new club has stirred up controversy not only among students at Georgia State, but also among students at other colleges and universities.

Amanda Miller just graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, and was at GSU Wednesday night waiting for a friend who was taking a final exam.

"I think to have a white student association is kind of ridiculous," Miller, who is white, said. "I mean, on one level, I understand wanting to connect with your heritage," and she said she might be interested in participating with others who share her family's background, which is Irish and Norwegian. "I don't feel the need to join a white student association. I'm happy to connect with my personal, cultural roots. But a white student association sounds a little, I don't know, I could see how it could go very wrong."

GSU Senior Stephanie-Joy Rhoden, an African American: "It's just the name, I think, really to be honest" that raises concerns for many. "That might make you go to that place in your head where you're, like, whoa, wait a minute, what's that about."

More power to him.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Guilty white liberals aint gonna like this!

 

[THORAX]

I wish him the best of luck!

Whites are steadily becoming minorities in the U.S. and it's time to end these racist double standards aimed at us.

 

[LoneLaugher]

What a bright young man. I wonder if he's got a website with his mission statement. He has realized the awful conditions that white students at his institution have to endure and is going to do something about it. I am sure he will have a great impact on the student body at GSU.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Pure whites already are. I'm not pure white so I don't count.

 

[R.C. Christian]

What a bright young man. I wonder if he's got a website with his mission statement. He has realized the awful conditions that white students at his institution have to endure and is going to do something about it. I am sure he will have a great impact on the student body at GSU.

Was that sarcasm?

 

[ClosedCaption]

Funny, these guys are still pushing the "wanting to be separate" bullshit. But have no problem with a Jewish group, Gay group, Womens group, Hispanic....uh...Womans group?

I'm sure all of those are ok because its only bad to separate when you separate based on race. Other separation is approved ;-)

 

[squeeze berry]

What a bright young man. I wonder if he's got a website with his mission statement. He has realized the awful conditions that white students at his institution have to endure and is going to do something about it. I am sure he will have a great impact on the student body at GSU.

proof that a white student union is needed ^

 

[rightwinger]

Why doesn't he just organize a Young Republicans union?

Same outcome

 

[LoneLaugher]

What a bright young man. I wonder if he's got a website with his mission statement. He has realized the awful conditions that white students at his institution have to endure and is going to do something about it. I am sure he will have a great impact on the student body at GSU.

Was that sarcasm?

What is sarcasm?

 

[Noomi]

Don't see what the issue is. No one can claim that the name is racist - if White Student Union is racist, then what does that make Black Student Union?

 

[editec]

No big deal.

The right to peaceful assembly of citizens is our FIRST AMENDMENT right, isn't it?

 

[squeeze berry]

What a bright young man. I wonder if he's got a website with his mission statement. He has realized the awful conditions that white students at his institution have to endure and is going to do something about it. I am sure he will have a great impact on the student body at GSU.

Was that sarcasm?

What is sarcasm?

double standards?

 

[ClosedCaption]

Don't see what the issue is. No one can claim that the name is racist - if White Student Union is racist, then what does that make Black Student Union?

History

 

[blastoff]

Waiting to hear what the NAAWP has to say about it.