Nov 15
Anti-Anglo American racism
After joining the Gay Straight Alliance at her Oakley, Calif., school, high school freshman Lisa McClelland, 15, noted the school had a Black Student Union, a chapter of Latinos Unidos, and an ALOHA Club for Asian Americans. Why not a Caucasian Club, wondered the girl, who is of Scottish, German, American Indian, Latino and Irish descent, so she got more than 300 student signatures on a petition to start one. But “Some people would say words like ‘racist’ when they see me,” she said later, and the NAACP called the club’s name “culturally insensitive”. She says the proposed club would be open to anyone who wanted to talk about race, or express pride in their European heritage. But she says she was harassed so much for her idea that she transferred to another school. The school she left? Freedom High School. (San
Francisco Chronicle) ...
“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back.”—Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968), American minister and civil right leader.
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