Freshman Starts 'White Student Union' Club at Georgia State University

[The Straight Story]

Controversy is brewing over a proposed "White Student Union" organization at Georgia State University.

Fliers have gone up on downtown streets announcing the controversial new student club.

The club is the brainchild of freshman Patrick Sharp. He said the club is different than groups like the Klu Klux Klan because "we're not a hate organization…We're not a supremacist organization…All we really recognize is that we're a distinct group of people who have every right to organize."

Georgia State is one of the nation's most diverse colleges -- a point the school is proud of. Sharp says that's the reasoning for his organization.

"Are black student unions racist? Are Latino student unions racist? Are any of those other things racist? There's really nothing about our union that separates us from them," Sharp said.

But the fliers have already caused anger and confusion on campus.

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1. What is the problem with it?

If there are similar orgs for people of other ethnic heritages, then what is wrong with this one?

I don't see the problem.

[NYC_SKP]

2. I have their club shirt design all ready to go.

[Tikki]

3. What...ever...

Better use of time might be: volunteering at a local children's hospital.

Tikki
this has been done before...

[NewThinkingChance40]

4. Having a group that is exclusive

based on color or any other trait is wrong IMHO.

If we want to get past race, we need to start by not having these kinds of things. Dr. King said he wanted to see world where men are not judged by the color of their skin, and since then, we have become even more divided. I personally do not like anything that eliminates people based on color, that goes for all black colleges or all white college groups. We need to stand up as the human race and accept people based on who they are, rather than what they are. That is all.

[Nye Bevan]

5. Just ignore them. They obviously want attention.

If they really do nothing to promote hate, what's the harm? If nobody pays them any attention they will probably get bored and the thing will fizzle out. That guy obviously just started the thing to try to get attention; best response is to not give him the satisfaction of getting any.

[rug]

6. There's already one at Towson State in Maryland.

http://towsonwsu.blogspot.com/

A charming group.