[lelio]

"They say this school is really ghetto," said the 15-year-old. "They ask, 'Have you been shot? Have you seen people carry guns?' That's just so stupid. It's racist.

Well have you seen people carry guns in the school?

[Snuffington]

"It's been such a norm that we haven't defined it, and I think white students might feel like they're in a cultural vacuum, whereas other folks -- the Asians and the Latinos, for example -- have something tangible to call their culture."

Geez. How can Balkanization ... I'm sorry, I mean diversity truly succeed until every single student can fit in a nice little segregated group? This clearly requires an immediate and sizable government grant to get this resolved.

[Wheee The People]

What is white? Just another term for can't dance.

[Gaetano]

"the European Ancestry Club had nearly 50 members"

What a great idea....we're not elitists or racists, we're....genealogists !

I lived and worked in the Eastbay for 11 years. I miss it very much, but I could not afford to raise my white kids there. In Piedmont, along with the Lamorinda towns, a million dollars buys you a very ordinary rancher which is falling off the side of a hill.

[BJungNan]

She has a great heritage. She can not find it because she has not been taught it. They don't teach those things in school anymore. She has many great leaders in history to hold up. She does not know them. They don't teach about them anymore.

[ZULU]

"Some, like Justine, consciously or unconsciously self-segregate."

MOST people, Asian, Indian, Caucasian (even to the degree of Italian, English, Irish, German, etc), tend to feel more comfortable among others of a similar cultural-ethnic background.

The problem here is that the Government and the Schools encourage Balkanization of the population by ALLOWING race or ethnic limited organizations. ALL OF THEM should be banned. This is AMERICA. We should only have room for Americans.

"A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance." - Theodore Roosevelt


What SHOULD be allowed are clubs like an Asian Study Group, or an Irish Study Group, or an Indonesian Study group - open to ALL students REGARDLESS of background, to encourage understanding and knowlege of other socities, rather than to reinforce an agenda of ethnic exclusivity.

[Onelifetogive]

The ethnic makeup of the Bay Area, he adds, demands that "we become conscious" of the role each race, each ethnicity, plays.

I think he is quoting Hitler on this one. It was much more melodic in the original German...

[WackyKat]

Today whites are a hated majority
In a few decades we'll be the hated minority
Think about the consequences of that

[richtig_faust]

Ahhh, cultural marxism........

[hosepipe]

What kind of white is she.?.. Julian Bond white, Micheal Jackson white, or Steve Martin white... or even Tony Brown white... course theres Eminem white which is'nt white at all but merely white-washed black...

[sweetliberty]

""It's been such a norm that we haven't defined it,"

That's because we haven't had to. Our culture, quite simply, is that which is being stolen, outlawed and politically corrected. Our culture produced great innovators, authors, composers and independent thinkers. Our culture formed the basis of what we think of as American tradition and laid the foundation of a free nation. Our culture has been taken captive by the demagogues of diversity. Welcome to America's future.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - MULTICULTURAL ALERT

[BSunday]

What is white ??

The only ethnic group it is legal to discriminate against.

[Steel Wolf]

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.

[sweetliberty]

"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.

[longtermmemmory]

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.

[redangus]

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.

[MissAmericanPie]

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.

[Hatteras]

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.

[Young Werther]

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!