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What is White? Caucasian students inquire.
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | December 8, 2003 | Jose Antonio Vargas

Posted on 12/08/2003 8:28:20 AM PST by SFmom

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The other students call her "white girl."

Justine Steele is a senior at Independence High School in San Jose, a sprawling campus of 4,054 students where 8 percent are Caucasian. Forget the numbers. "Look around," she says. There are Indians and Vietnamese, Mexicans and Filipinos.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: caucasianclub; diversity; education; europeanamericans; multiculturalism; publicschools; racism; sfbayarea; white
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To: SFmom
INTREP - MULTICULTURAL ALERT
21 posted on 12/08/2003 9:28:43 AM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: SFmom
What is white ??

The only ethnic group it is legal to discriminate against.

22 posted on 12/08/2003 9:31:56 AM PST by BSunday (I'm not the bad guy. Hillary is.)
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To: SFmom
For any form with 'race' on it that is not multiple choice, I always put 'human'. If we really are supposed to be equal before the law, then they shouldn't need to see me in person first to know just how equal I am.
23 posted on 12/08/2003 9:33:22 AM PST by Steel Wolf (Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
"I always looked at dancing as a little primitive. But it's always fun to watch people make absolute fools of themselves.

Yeah...I always felt that way about square-dancing and that silly 'Irish feet-slapping and kicking' dancing. And that ballet stuff..just ridiculous. And don't get me started on that American Indian Fancy Dance craziness. Why can't those people just stay still. Funny looking stuff.

But what the heck...I'm just a poor Scottish/HillBilly.

24 posted on 12/08/2003 9:33:31 AM PST by Khurkris (Ranger On...The Big Ranger in the Sky is there for You)
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To: SFmom
"After the belt buckle incident, Booker revoked the club's charter."

But I'll bet the oh so tolerant crowd can wear anything they d**m well please.

"But let's be honest. People have a hard time separating 'whiteness' from 'racism.'"

Yes, let's be honest; that is exactly what the racebaiters wanted in the first place, so they could cast themselves in the role of perpetual victim thereby justifying their own tryanny over white society. It's just slavery of a different kind and with a different master.

25 posted on 12/08/2003 9:34:44 AM PST by sweetliberty (Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
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To: SFmom
This article is paralleling the effort to equate the status of being white with racism. Then again it is from soon to be green party, San Fraciiiiisco.
26 posted on 12/08/2003 9:39:25 AM PST by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: BJungNan
"They don't teach about them anymore."

Given the fact that schools, school libraries, colleges, public libraries and even bookstores, along with network producers and special interests are working to control what children and/or even adults have access to, and that textbook authors are working with a vengeance to neutralize our language to virtual meaninglessness, classic works of literature are being politcally corrected or banned altogether and anything with a Christian theme is increasingly "unconsitutional," wouldn't it be great to put together a politically incorrect library? Perhaps it doesn't seem to many to be necessary right now, but at the rate that we are losing our freedons, it won't be long until the only real history books, literary classics and inspirational works will be in private collections. This is true for movies and likely some music as well.

27 posted on 12/08/2003 9:51:38 AM PST by sweetliberty (Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
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To: sweetliberty
O/T, meant to respond to you yesterday about your cat, but I had a big fat orange cat in my face.......and he NEVER does that. I think he wanted to read what you were saying about YOUR cat. :-)
28 posted on 12/08/2003 9:52:50 AM PST by Howlin
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To: SFmom
All the talk about diversity and multiculuralism will end as soon as whites are the minority nationwide. When that happens being a minority will no longer garner you special rights. The country will be a pure majority rule state.
29 posted on 12/08/2003 9:53:05 AM PST by redangus
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To: Khurkris
And don't get me started on that American Indian Fancy Dance craziness

LOL! Never heard of that one. I am imagining a chicken dance.

But I agree, watching people dance is pretty funny stuff.

You know those guys that talk sing?-- What the hay is the name of that,,uh, um..... oh, raping.... Do people dance to that too? I'm not talking about those guys that spin and jump around the sidewalks. LOL! I've never seen anyone dance to a rap talk song. Do they do that? Or does everyone just move their heads up and down in unison, and

30 posted on 12/08/2003 9:53:57 AM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: Howlin
LOL! They do seem to know, don't they?
31 posted on 12/08/2003 9:55:58 AM PST by sweetliberty (Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
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To: SFmom
Maybe someone should tell her that she is a member of a unique race that thinks in the abstract, creates, invents, is ingenious, and ambitious, possess's a work ethic, a moral foundation, and is not afraid of risk or failure.

She is a member of a race that built great wealth, a great nation, and civil society that others can copy, envy, and demand more than a share of, but cannot seem to initiate themselves for what ever reason, be it lack of courage, ambition, whatever.

She is a member of a race so envied that other's seek to marginalize, or eleminate outright, that birthright, culture, heritage, civil society, wealth, future. While claiming that this race is not a race, has no culture, history, or heritage, which deserves to be fought for or preserved. All with the aid and approval of our Fed of course.

She is a decendent of the American Revolution, a unique race of people, blessed by the God they paid homage to, and one that is almost as hated, feared, and persecuted world wide as the Jew.
32 posted on 12/08/2003 10:02:42 AM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: SFmom
I have related this story in the past but when I was a junior in HS ('77-'78), I was picked to be in a group of students, parents and teachers to meet after school to come up with a new plan to elect a homecoming queen. The black parents were getting upset because our school had never had a black homecoming queen and "the system" was failing. Our school at the time was 85% white and 14.9% black (We had one japanese guy who thought he was white - we never had the heart to break the news to him...)

Despite my misgivings, the group came up with a plan that would ensure multiple black candidates to choose from for homecoming queen. The parents looked at me like I was some kind of racist when I suggested that if their goal was to have a black homecoming queen, the best chance would be to have one black girl against 3 or 4 white girls and they were quite smug in their satisfaction when the new process resulted in 3 black nominees and one white nominee.

Long story short, about 65% of the voting students voted for the one white nominee and the three black girls (all terrific kids, by the way) were left to divide the remaining 35%.

After that, it was all down hill. In my senior year, we had "Homecoming Representatives" selected from each homeroom. There was no election process so there were about 8 "Queens" riding the float including our first male Homecoming Queen. No, it wasn't me, but I was instrumental in bringing that about. I promised a buddy a case of beer if he would volunteer to represent our homeroom.

33 posted on 12/08/2003 10:04:26 AM PST by Hatteras (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
You never saw the native fancy shawl dances? Actually, I think they are quite impressive. I lived in an area where pow-wows were held regularly and I always loved watching the dancers. But the best (at least from a female perspective) are the male Hawaiian dancers (especially the fire dancers). Mercy, those guys are hot (in more ways than one).
34 posted on 12/08/2003 10:09:32 AM PST by sweetliberty (Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
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To: Hatteras
The parents looked at me like I was some kind of racist when I suggested that if their goal was to have a black homecoming queen, the best chance would be to have one black girl against 3 or 4 white girls and they were quite smug in their satisfaction when the new process resulted in 3 black nominees and one white nominee. Long story short, about 65% of the voting students voted for the one white nominee and the three black girls (all terrific kids, by the way) were left to divide the remaining 35%.

Your high school wasn't in Palm Beach County, FL, by any chance was it?

35 posted on 12/08/2003 10:24:33 AM PST by 70times7 (An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
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To: sweetliberty
You never saw the native fancy shawl dances?

Fancy shawl dances? No, not lately. But I'll be looking for them.

LOL!

36 posted on 12/08/2003 10:27:10 AM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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To: SFmom
I once met a "white" young man. He had pink eyes and was ALBINO!!!!

Check out the Dec 2003 Scientific American. The cover article opines that there is just ONE race. Skin color is an environmental adaptation. I like to tell my students that God has a multihued pallette to add spice to our otherwise dreary black and white existence. As for red heads with freckles, I just suggest that God sneezed!

37 posted on 12/08/2003 10:31:25 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: Gaetano
"the European Ancestry Club had nearly 50 members"

Oh, so confusing for White test-tube babies!
38 posted on 12/08/2003 10:33:40 AM PST by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: WackyKat
Today whites are a hated majority In a few decades we'll be the hated minority Think about the consequences of that

Already have. Not going to stand for it. BLOAT.

39 posted on 12/08/2003 10:34:05 AM PST by Bernard Marx (I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.)
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To: SFmom
Apparently, just being white is not acceptable or it is actually offensive. White kids have to "act black, asian or hispanic" just to fit in. Apparently racism is alive and well towards white kids. This is what "multiculturalism" is. Make whites feel guilty for just being white.
40 posted on 12/08/2003 10:47:56 AM PST by Ron in Acreage
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