THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: STUDENTS START WHITE PRIDE UNION IN ATLANTA

ATLANTA: The next semester will not start for several weeks, but Georgia State University has already received complaints about a new student club - the White Student Union. Freshman Patrick Sharp said he started the club to serve as a place where students of European and Euro-American descent could celebrate their shared history and culture and discuss issues that affect white people, such as immigration and affirmative action. The club is not an official group recognised by the university. Mr Sharp said any student could join and that he would work with other clubs, such as the Black Student Alliance, on common issues. Georgia State is highly diverse, with whites comprising 38 per cent of students, followed by black people at 35 per cent, Asians at 12 per cent and Latinos at 7 per cent. ''If we are already minorities on campus and are soon to be minorities in this country, why wouldn't we have the right to advocate for ourselves and have a club just like every other minority?'' said Mr Sharp, 18, from Birmingham, Alabama. ''Why is it when a white person says he is proud to be white, he's shunned as a racist?'' Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/students-start-white-pride-union-20130801-2r21h.html