The group has been busy passing out flyers in Spring Lake, Ferrysburg, and Grand Haven.
Posted on 05/25/2005 10:30:21 PM PDT by Libloather
Whites-only group looking to recruit members
(Update, Spring Lake, May 24, 2005, 11:50 a.m.) It's a new group looking to recruit new members, and it has just one requirement. You have to be white. The group goes by the name White Voices of America, a whites-only group calling for fair and equal treatment of white people in West Michigan.
The group has been busy passing out flyers in Spring Lake, Ferrysburg, and Grand Haven.
Joel Toppen is with the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance.
Several people in the tri-cities area have expressed concern to the police about the group's activity.
Members of White Voices of America say they don't shave their heads or wear white hoods, but they do believe in rights for whites. The group claims to be neither racist or radical, telling people they're just interested in helping with the problems facing white America. White Voices of America says its mission is not to separate and alienate the races, but it says someone has to look out for the interest of whites just as the NAACP does for blacks.
The group has been busy passing out flyers in Spring Lake, Ferrysburg, and Grand Haven. The flyers surfaced last week. The title caught eyes and turned heads. There it was in black and white: White Voices of America, a group calling for a whites-only family picnic and political discussion.
While the group is working hard to recruit new members, others are plotting ways to counter the group's message. Joel Toppen is with the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance. Since coming across the flyers, he's been busy contacting educators, city leaders, churches, and business owners to come up with a way to drown out the whites-only voice and message.
"I think it would be a mistake if we get bogged down in trying to figure out who's racist and who isn't racist. It's clear they have a whites only agenda," Toppen says.
Toppen says communities like Ferrysburg, Spring Lake, and Grand Haven, where the flyers were handed out, already struggle with issues of diversity and inclusion. He says the area does not have an image of being inclusive and welcome.
"We do not want the tri-cities area to be whites-only. We want this to be a inclusive community," Toppen says. "White-only values are not tri-cities values and are not West Michigan values."
Several people in the tri-cities area have expressed concern to the police about the group's activity, but police officers say White Voices of America has a legal right to post flyers and share its message with the public.
24 Hour News 8 talked with a member of the group about its mission, but he turned down our invitation to speak on camera. Organizers of the group do say they will hold a event soon in Spring Lake, and the police say they will be there to maintain order and keep the peace.
but it says someone has to look out for the interest of whites just as the NAACP does for blacks.
** The NAACP as it stands today is a group hardly looking for the interests of black people. It's the pimp hall of doom for Kwesi Mfume and his posse. IOW, this group will be just as twisted as the NAACP.
Concurring bump.
Is that Bill Clinton??
Similar methods and similar values gets you similar results
** So true.
Spring Lake/Grand Haven is already bigtime white anyway, so WTF are those "White Voices" people complaining about?
That said if I lived there, I'd give "White Voices" the same respect I have for the NAACP. None.
William Jefferson Gutterball.
Is that Bill Clinton??
It ain't Jack LaLanne.
Wow. Judging from my ethnic background, I qualify! Just like "affirmative action".
LOL lord have mercy.
Oddly enough, just go to www.AOL.com and you'll see a prominent section called BlackVoices in the upper left corner of your screen. Too bad for me I've maintained the same AOL address for more than eleven years or I would drop them like a bad habit due to their racism.
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Look race is a fact. To pretend it's not real is fake. Check out Black Planet. It's pretty cool. It's a black oriented BBS, but they are happy to have anyone join. So quite a few white and asian people are on it. A good test for this group: can black people join?
Look race is a fact. To pretend it's not real is fake. Check out Black Planet. It's pretty cool. It's a black oriented BBS, but they are happy to have anyone join. So quite a few white and asian people are on it. A good test for this group: can black people join?
It's not a black only forum. You can post there. What's racist about that?
I agree about black planet. I like allhiphop too. I visit a lot of sites but definately know which group has zero tolerance for anyone different and it sure isn't blackplanet!
You pay AOL $20+ a month for their BS? You have a serious problem. BTW when you quit, they will CONTINUE CHARGING YOU. THEY ARE CRIMINAL!!!!!!!
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