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| The Caucasian Club, And Why I Support It |
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| Just about every school across the nation has clubs that students create for the purpose of meeting similar people and relating to issues that they may have a mutual interest in.� Some of these clubs deal with entertainment or sports, while some clubs deal with politics and culture.� Recently an Oakley, Calif., high school girl had an idea to start one of these clubs, but she has been getting a large amount of flak for it.� Why in the world would she be under such fire for wanting to start a club?� Simple - the club that Lisa McClelland wants to start is a Caucasian club, and according to much of the United States, this is simply not acceptable. |
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| What I find so hypocritical and contradictory about this is that so many ridiculously natured clubs are formed, clubs nobody seems to have a problem with, yet when a Caucasian club is to be formed, the girl is made to feel guilty for ever having thought of the idea.� Allow me to go through a short laundry list of clubs that I find questionable, clubs that exist here on our very campus, clubs that never received the kind of flak that this girl is getting. |
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| One club that always gets my blood boiling is the cop-killer supporter club, known as the "Student Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal."� Can somebody please explain to me why this club can operate without criticism while McClelland's Caucasian club cannot?� The students in this club support a man that savagely killed a cop in cold blood, a man who is now on death row awaiting justified punishment for his crime.� Since when did it become acceptable to start a club that not only celebrates a cop-killer but works to free him, ultimately wanting to release this dangerous man back into society?� Does anybody else find this preposterous? |
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| Soon after McClelland made her idea for a Caucasian club public, Darnell Turner, the first vice president from her local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) made a statement saying that he believes her club would create "racial tension."� Allow me to understand this mentality: Mr. Turner belongs to a club that is based solely on the color of one's skin, yet he has a problem with McClelland's club?� It seems to me that her club would be right up Turner's alley.� Furthermore, if her club would create racial tension, then surely the over 20 race- and culture-based clubs here on campus would create tension as well?� Apparently the African Student Union, the Muslim Student Association, the Latino Student Union, and the Iranian Student Association, not to mention over 15 others, are not subject to this scrutiny.� Go figure.� I might further add that McClelland has graciously offered anybody who wants to join membership to her club, not just Caucasians, and has said that no one will be excluded.� That is more than I can say for some of the clubs I mentioned. |
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| How about all the political clubs here on campus that support silly and illogical ideologies, such as the Campus Progressives, who are, for all intents and purposes, neo-Communists that hate President Bush for no reason other than the fact he is a Republican.� Why hasn't anybody started a Saddam Hussein club?� Remember all the ultra-liberal students here who were so vehemently against the war and who seemed to think that Hussein was such a stand-up guy?� A club of this nature would probably be welcomed more warmly than a Caucasian club would! |
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| I support McClelland fully in her spearheading of a Caucasian club and I urge anybody who disagrees with this club to think twice.� There are clubs and special interest groups for every possible facet of society, including those based on race, culture, and political affiliation.� Why then, should a white student be lambasted for wanting to begin a Caucasian club?� Quite an interesting set of double standards her opponents possess, wouldn't you say? |
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Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2003, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. |
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(from September 25, 2003) |
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