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<p>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.</p> <p>Here, a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes stands out.</p>

<p>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.</p> <p>Here, a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes stands out.</p>

<p>The other students call her "white girl."</p> <p>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.</p>

<p>The girl who tried to start a Caucasian Club at her California high school has abandoned the effort and transferred to another school, driven away, her parents say, by the harassment and name-calling she suffered from other students.</p> <p>Lisa McClelland, 15, left Freedom High School in Oakley and began attending another secondary school in the Liberty Union High School District several weeks ago, said her mother, Debi Neely.</p>

CNSNews.com) - A 15-year-old high school freshman who proposed the creation of a Caucasian student club at a California high school has transferred to another facility, citing harassment from other students. Lisa McClelland reportedly left the predominantly white Freedom High School in Oakley, vowing never to return because of pestering from other students, some who accused her of being racist. With her parents' permission, McClelland transferred to La Paloma, a continuation high school in nearby Brentwood, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. "Some people would say words like 'racist' when they see me," Lisa told the Chronicle. "Some people would give...

<p>It's 11:40 a.m., the middle of lunch break at the only high school in Oakley, and freshman Lisa McClelland is at home.</p> <p>The 15-year-old says she's not going back to Freedom High School.</p> <p>Her push to start a Caucasian Club at her predominately white school -- in predominately white Oakley, population 25,000 -- has made national headlines, causing harassment, she said, from fellow students. She hasn't been at school in nearly two weeks and doesn't plan to come back. With her parents' consent, she has decided to transfer to La Paloma, a continuation high school in nearby Brentwood.</p>

Add the Rush Limbaugh controversy to the following list of surreal racial episodes. The National Football League fines Detroit Lions General Manager Matt Millen $200,000 for failing to interview a black candidate in his coaching search. Since everyone knew that Millen had already found the coach he intended to hire (Steve Mariucci), it was left unexplained how interviewing a black candidate would have amounted to anything more than racial tokenism. In Oakley, Calif., a furor erupts when a 15-year-old girl attempts to create a Caucasian Student Club in a high school that already features, minus the associated controversy, black, Latino...

<p>Lisa McClelland has been called a white racist, a fat, white neo-Nazi, KKK girl and a host of obscenity-laced insults since she decided to start a Caucasian Club at her California high school.</p> <p>A gang of girls threatened to beat her up. Flyers have appeared on campus urging students to boycott her club. A teacher told her in front of the class that he'd rather see her "drugged out and pregnant" than on the news talking about her club.</p>

"NAACP Up in Arms Over Student's Proposed 'Caucasian Club'" Posted by Cinnamon Stillwell Wednesday, September 24, 2003 Go to any high school or college campus these days, and you’ll see clubs for African-American, Latino, and Asian students, but nothing for white students. A young lady at Freedom High School in Oakley is trying to right that disparity by starting a ''Caucasian Club.'' While the students are mostly amenable to the idea, predictably, the NAACP is up in arms about it, accusing her of being a racist. Danielle Samaniego, writing for The Contra Costa Times, demonstrates why separatism is a slippery...

(CNSNews.com) - A leading conservative cultural critic took aim at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Monday. The reason: the group's opposition to a high school student's proposal to start a Caucasian Club. "There is incredible public hypocrisy over the entrenched double standards that have come to be taken for granted by the American educational establishment," David Horowitz, author and president of the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture told CNSNews.com. "Our (high school and college) campuses are the most segregated and racially discriminatory institutions in the entire country." At issue is the...

Two recent news items may represent the tip of an enormous explosion about to take place in this country. Many young Americans are not reacting to the dominant liberal message of dividing the country into racial and ethnic categories in ways that liberals had anticipated.The first news item is out of Oakley, Calif., where a 15-year-old girl is attempting to start a Caucasian students club at her high school. Reports all suggest that there is nothing racist in her desire. Even the vice president of the local NAACP chapter says, "I think she's doing this for the right reasons."She simply...

It's a wonder that no one has thought of it before. Though it's likely that others have and were either talked out of it or simply ordered to forget it. But Lisa McClelland, 15 and a student at Freedom High School in Oakley, Calif., launched the idea, which has attracted the national media's attention. Now the fat is in the fire, and where it will all end (in the words of a famous parody of Time magazine) knows God. Lisa's idea was to start a Caucasian Club at her high school. After all, the school already boasts a Black Student...

Lisa McClelland simply wanted to be included. You see, at her school, the Freedom High School in Oakley, California (a contradiction of terms if there ever was one) there is an Asian Club and a Black Student Union, both of which she was excluded from because of her race. These groups are accepted by the school’s administration and by the local community on the whole. But when Lisa wanted to form a group called the Caucasian Club it would seem this is when the hypocrisy started to flow at Freedom High. It should be pointed out that McClelland is of...

Lisa McClelland simply wanted to be included. You see, at her school, the Freedom High School in Oakley, California (a contradiction of terms if there ever was one) there is an Asian Club and a Black Student Union, both of which she was excluded from because of her race. These groups are accepted by the school’s administration and by the local community on the whole. But when Lisa wanted to form a group called the Caucasian Club it would seem this is when the hypocrisy started to flow at Freedom High. It should be pointed out that McClelland is of...

<p>A 15-year-old girl's effort to start a Caucasian Club at her California high school has won her some support &#8212; and an avalanche of anger.</p> <p>Freshman Lisa McClelland gathered about 250 signatures from students and adults to start a club at Freedom High School in Oakley, Calif., that would focus attention on European heritage and history.</p>

We've always said that one problem with "identity" politics is, Where will it end? If we have black student lounges on campus, how many other racially segregated lounges will we have to bear? These questions are more than theoretical, as proven by a story out of California. In Oakley (not Oakland), "Lisa McClelland says she isn't a racist," according to a news report. "She says her campaign for a Caucasian Club at her high school is a move toward diversity, not bigotry. She says everyone is invited — and nobody will be excluded." For those who care — and, boy,...

Earlier today at her school that already has clubs for almost every other ethnic group. This was no "racist" club. No KKK. No Nazis etc. Just a club for European Americans that was not exclusionary in any way shape or form. Of course NAACP condemned the idea as "racially divisive". Now the school itself is censoring discussion of the issue on its own online forum! Check it out for yourself here http://www.libertyuhsd.k12.ca.us/freedom/ click on the "Enter the Forum" button in the lower left of the page. Can you imagine that?!?! "Liberty" is the school district name. "Freedom" is the school...

OAKLEY, Calif. - Freedom High School officials say they will not make any decision on a proposed Caucasian Club until freshman Lisa McClelland meets necessary application requirements, including finding an adviser and drawing up a club constitution. The 15-year-old met with Principal Eric Volta briefly Thursday morning for an informal discussion about the club and her well-being, Volta said. ``I talked to her about the process and made sure she was OK emotionally,'' Volta said. ``We talked about the purpose of the club. The school's not opposed to cultural clubs and hasn't been, obviously. We'll see where she takes it...

<p>When freshman Lisa McClelland first proposed a Caucasian Club at Freedom High School in Oakley, she had no inkling of the stir she would cause in the quiet little town on the eastern fringe of Contra Costa County.</p> <p>Three weeks after she began circulating a petition, signed on sheets of binder paper by classmates and town residents, Lisa's campaign has drawn national media attention that has led to a mixed community reaction. Some critics seem more focused on the name than on the activities of the club.</p>

OAKLEY, Calif. -- Lisa McClelland says she isn't a racist. She says her campaign for a Caucasian Club at her California high school is a move toward diversity, not bigotry. She says everyone is invited -- and nobody will be excluded. McClelland's ethnic background includes American Indian, Hispanic, Dutch, German, Italian and Irish. She says she and her friends feel slighted by other clubs at Freedom High School in Oakley, such as the Black Student Union and the Asian Club. McClelland says she's collected 245 signatures of support from students, adults and others since announcing her plans three weeks ago....