No need to fight for pride when your not doing something shameful. Lets all just follow Jesus who said "They will know your my disciples because you love one another."

One shouldn't need to follow a higher power to know what is right; opposing this kind of bias is basic humanity. Attempts to further separate us from one another is just plain wrong.

Gee, I wonder how many non-blacks are in the Black Student Union?

My question is, is there a black student union on campus? If there is then the white students have every right to have a student union of their own. As for attempts to further separate us...... I think black people have the market cornered on that one.

How about we get rid of all these unions and form one new union called "Students who have felt or still feel oppressed due to their race Union". Everyone of all races can all get together and bitch and moan about life and how they been oppressed.

Nobody seems to complain when others form their groups,unions,etc....But when whites form a group they are the second coming of the KKK.Quit whining & get on with life.

So just change the words: "whites only" to "blacks only" & there goes your diversity. Such a cry over nothing.

Does the Black Student Union restrict whites any other students from joining? Does the Asian Student Union restrict only Asians to join? College is about exploration so you may have people of other races joining other groups just because they are interested in issues that affect that group. For what its worth the NAACP has white members.....

Hi, Towson Student here. Yes, there are white members of the BSU (in fact, this semester a member of the board is) and all other organizations are integrated. The issue Towson Students are taking with this issue is, again, Last semester there were issues with Matthew Heimbach and the group that was now disbanded creating issues on campus. Not just to the black student union, but to the Muslim student union, and LGBT-allied orgs. Pure hatred. NO one thinks "white student union = racist", it's just that these PARTICULAR people have a proven track record of being terrible. To the point where minority students feared their safety on campus.

When you look at history and consider WHY Black/Asian/Latino/Muslim/Minority Student Unions DO exist and WERE erected, primarily in Predominantly White Institutions, you'd understand why some are confused by the notion of a "white student union". I feel it's wonderful for all races to be able to celebrate themselves and their culture, but NOT in the name of hatred of another group. Also, the focus of these groups are NOT to "bitch and moan about life and how they been oppressed". Please I encourage all to do your OWN research on groups before you judge and spill from the mouth about them.

If you don't like having a white student union, then don't join. Fact is if there is no interest, people won't join and the group will naturally disband once the founding members graduate/lose interest (probably less than 4 years)

To the point people were making against having a white student union, there are many black student organizations at historically African American colleges. If you don't believe me, there are about a dozen at Morgan State http://www.msustudentcenter.com/studentActivities/campusOrgs.asp?pageID=14&SectionID=2.

Furthmore, I don't think any organization for oppressed people is a good idea because it leads to being exclusive to only their own members. If you remember, it was not too long ago minorities of all types (Blacks, Jews, Catholics, Asians, Irish, Pole, etc) could not be members of the same country clubs, live in the same neighborhoods, and work in the same places and the last thing we need are race specific organizations. Therefore they should allow the white student union to exist or disband all racial/religious/gender... organizations

Baltimore Matt as well as others commenting on this article, come on. As the Towson student stated, any student group be it black, asian, lgbt, etc. are open to all Towson students, white or not. Your analogy to country clubs and exclusion holds absolutely no water. You stated, "Furthmore, I don't think any organization for oppressed people is a good idea because it leads to being exclusive to only their own members. If you remember, it was not too long ago minorities of all types (Blacks, Jews, Catholics, Asians, Irish, Pole, etc) could not be members of the same country clubs..." Check me if I'm wrong, but how many black, jewish, asian, catholic, irish, polish, etc, country clubs exist that only allow black, jewish, asian, catholic, irish, polish, etc, members to join. Not many if any. My guess is that the people who are in Baltimore Matt's camp also believe nothing should be categorized as a hate crime? Am I right?

Paul 137
Regarding the Wichita murders, this is from the wiki source that you cited:
“The brothers broke into a house chosen nearly at random where Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, Aaron Sander, Jason Befort and his girlfriend, a young woman identified as 'H.G.', all in their twenties, were spending the night.

Regarding the Knoxville murders, which I had read about prior to your post, this is from the wiki source you cited:
"There is absolutely no proof of a hate crime," said John Gill, special counsel to Knox County District Atty. Randy Nichols. "We know from our investigation that the people charged in this case were friends with white people, socialized with white people, dated white people. So not only is there no evidence of any racial animus, there's evidence to the contrary."[45]

If a bunch of white supremacists drag a black man behind their pickup causing his death, and causing his death specifically because he is black, that is a hate crime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd,_Jr.

Neither of the cases you cite shows any evidence that the subjects were targeted because of their race or sexual orientation. So I’ll ask again, do you just not believe in hate crimes?

Regarding the ridiculous "love crime" comment, murders and beatings are awful, but not always rooted in someone's race, or sexual orientation. When they fall in that category, they are hate crimes.

Paul,
I think the issue with hate crimes, at least racially motivated hate crimes, is that white people haven't been strung up by their necks because they are white, unlike black people. As a side note Clarence Thomas is black, so is Thomas Sowell (cited in one of your wiki articles), but I think I'm blacker than both of them.

With regard to ethnic and racial unions it is reasonable that they exist, just as there are Catholic, Baptist, Jewish, and Mormon groups. Of course such groups would have members that had interest in closer association with persons of their own religious interests; in consequence eventhough there were persons of differing persuasions, there likely wouldn't be significant numbers. This idea demonstrates Hitler's error. The Jews were almost exclusively interested in there own for marriage and close association; so if their theories weren't satisfactory, the other Germans who vastly outnumbered them could simply reject them. There was no need to exterminate them. If people of any race, religion, or ethnic construction find that they enjoy close association in a permitted union, they constitutionally are allowed to do so. They should not be criticized as long as they don't disrespect other groups.

When you visit all the sites discussing this subject what you find is out of every 10,000 people replying 9,999 people support them. like it or not eventually this will happen.if not by this group another will succeed you can discriminate against white people for ever.

I m BLACK me ,and I FUCK THIS PETITION