Tuesday, December 04, 2012

‘White Student Union’ tests college’s boundaries | The Raw Story

‘White Student Union’ tests college’s boundaries | The Raw Story: An American university student is working to create the country’s first white student union, triggering debate over the limits of free speech.

“White culture is dying,” Matthew Heimbach, 21, lamented as he distributed flyers on campus denouncing the building of a mosque near Towson University, where he is in his last year.

“Every other single group has a union — Jewish, black. Why don’t white students get equal treatment?” said the tall, slightly heavy history major wearing a khaki jacket and a “sons of liberty” T-shirt.

Towson University, where two out of three students are white, is located just outside the east coast city of Baltimore, where most of the population is black.
Yet, “we live on a campus where there is discrimination against whites,” Heimbach asserted, referring to the school’s affirmative action programs.