I had always failed to see the consistency between allowing a “black” student organization but not a “white” student organization - assuming that the “black” referred to a grouping based on race.

And indeed, I suspect that many have viewed it that way and promoted it that way.

However, when you indicate that “black” by necessity has also had to become a shorthand for “ethnicity/culture” - that at least puts it on equal footing with other ethinic groups.

(And while I don’t think that WASP quite works, since this is - as I understand it - a sociological category rather than a distince ethnic identity, certainly a British Isles or Celtic groups, for instance woud qualify.)

To me, the test of your argument for any particular group as being culturally versus racially based would be its membership criteria and the way it treats its participants. But I’m sure you know the difference.

So again, thanks for that explanation. It gives me a different way to view and assess various “black” groups and movements.

Troll.

http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/pcism/sad_history.htm

DYK-KKK Terrorist Arm of the Democrat Party
History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.

http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-KKK%20Terrorist%20Arm%20of%20the%20Democrat%20Party

Your party was the party of slavery. Your party was the party of Jim Crow. Your party is the party of racists in groups like La Raza.

I think I love you.

Wanna make some babies?…