posted on Oct, 3 2003 @ 01:10 PM
Oh, Ive been to that site before, Colonel. Ive been there. Some of it is ok, some of it is insanity really.
Remeber, the point here is regional. In the Bay area, these white kids are the minority. Thus, the need for a club.
I know all about stuoid white people and what they do in thier other....um....clubs.
I lived in a small town in ohio for a few years when i was a little kid. It was a shock, coming from California, to a small redneck town with NO
minorities at all. NONE. While I didnt recieve any harrassment or bullying during my time there in the little rednmeck village of Lakeview, ohio, I
remeber all to well about a nice black family and what happened to them.
Both were well educated, mom and dad, Mom was a real estate manager, dad was a lawyer. Why they moved to this po dunk town Id never undertsand, but
they did. They had a little boy, James, who was in my second grade class. He was the only black kid in the school. All the other kids, who had never
seen a black person, would stare at him. They sometimes picked on him. They called him coon and 'n-word'. I was little and didnt understand, really,
cuz I had never heard those terms before, in california, in the big towns, you really never do hear them. because a white person who used those would
wind up face down in the gutter.
The family recoieved harassing phone calls. They were bombarded with trash thrown on thier lawn, people threw rocks through thier window. One weekend,
when they took a trip up to cedar point in cleveland, thier house "mysteriously" burned down. (and the charred remains of a cross found on thier
lawn, come to think of it, they didnt have a cross on thier lawn before, where did it come from....hmmmm?) The town police, of course, blamed the fire
on "faulty wiring" or a ciggarette left burning (even tho they didnt smoke). Thankfully, the family was away and unhurt, but they lost thier home.
They moved out of town. And it went back to an all white trash inbred trailer park town of about 800 people.
My point is, I know what happens to blacks, Hispanics, Asians when they are in the minority. I also know what hapopens to white people when they are
in the minority. My point is, is that when in the minority, no matter what thier race, the idea of a club that they can find others of thier own
background to congregate with is a good one.
Not every white club gets drunk and starts cauisng problems for minorities. I know that wouldnt have happened at my school. If it was say a rich white
suburb with a bunch of spoiled uppity punk kids and hardly any minorities in the school, then I would hardly see the necessity for such a group.
But it is not. And Tolerance.org has a bad habit of showing only one side of the story. There are plenty of white people who would not do such things,
and given thier own club, they probably would not even be noticed by others much.
I have also known Hispanic and African clubs, por groups, who do the same thing: dig on white people in thier meetings, throw racial insults and
slurs, ect.
It goes both ways. fair is fair.