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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...1600EDT0196.DTL
Student's proposed Caucasian Club meets some resistance
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
(09-17) 16:07 PDT OAKLEY, Calif. (AP) --
A Freedom High School freshman has run up against opposition in her quest to start a Caucasian Club for white students.
A local NAACP leader says Lisa McClelland's proposed club smacks of racial division, a charge the 15-year-old denies. McClelland says she and some of her friends simply feel a bit slighted since other school clubs cater to specific cultures and races, such as the Black Student Union and the Asian Club.
"It's not racist because we're not excluding anyone, and we're just trying to solve the issues of racial disparity," McClelland said. Her ethnic background is American Indian, Latino, Dutch, German, Italian and Irish.
So far McClelland has gathered 245 signatures from an array of students, adults and others on and off campus in support of the formation of her Caucasian Club. She's looking to gather additional signatures before submitting the petition to Freedom High principal Eric Volta this week.
The high school has dealt with thorny racial issues in the recent past. In 2001, a black teacher found a noose made out of a shoelace hanging on the doorknob of his classroom. Tensions mounted again last year when a roped noose was found dangling from a redwood tree on campus.
Darnell Turner, vice president of the East County chapter of the NAACP, spoke out against the 2002 incident and says McClelland's Caucasian Club sounds like a bad idea at a time when the campus is trying to heal fresh emotional wounds.
"It will not allow us to heal that divide that we've tried to overcome in the past couple of years," Turner said. "If her motivation is to bring harmony, as she alleges, this is not the way to go."
Some of McClelland's classmates, however, support her effort.
"It'd be tight because they can learn more about their history," said 14-year-old Tyleisha Crooks, a fellow freshman at Freedom who is black.
Elliott Perez, 14, a sophomore at Freedom who is Latino and white, also said the school could benefit from McClelland's club.
"I think it's fair for white people to have their own club, because every other race has their own club," he said.
Both Crooks and Perez signed the petition in support of the formation of the Caucasian Club.
Oakley is located about 50 miles east of San Francisco.
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On the Net:
www.libertyuhsd.k12.ca.us/Freedom/
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Vesayen
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I'm sure if a Caucasian tried to join the Asian American club, the Latin American club or the African Student club they would be welcomed with open arms, right?
It would go over just a bit better then Hillel going to a Muslim Alliance meeting.
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Vesayen
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The point is that if your going to make clubs for distinctions on race, EVERY race should be allowed to make such clubs-saying "We'll they'll accept anyone, not just that race!" Well if thats the case why do such clubs exist?
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Lincoln
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The NAACP are hypocrites. eg.:
"A local NAACP leader says Lisa McClelland's proposed club smacks of racial division...
What do they think they are doing?
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:30
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I do not think a white group is as usefull as a black groups, and this is why: the purpose of these groups is likely to explore issues pertient to this one group witin society: most ethnic groups happen to be minorities, and their experiences within the whole are different from the majorities, different enough that a group designed to help members deal with how being a minority one should relate to others in their group, other minorities, and specially to the whole.
The majority in essence lives the "normal" life so having a group alla bout people coming to, well, explore the normal life seems strange. Now, the other thing is that in general, 'whites' as a group I think are less likely to share some common thread of experience to make the group as usefull: culture based groups, like and Irish group, Italian, Russian, polish culture groups and such do have a better claim to being able to gather around a central theme of experiences
Now, as long as these groups allow anyone to join in trying to deal with this different thread of experiences that members in this one gorup feel they share, then I do not see how they can be seen as divisive.
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18-09-2003 09:15
Having a soc for foreigners studying from abroad seems like the limit though.
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