'White Student Union' Members Defend CPAC Segregation Comments

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Two members of the White Student Union at Towson University in Maryland aren't backing down after advocating for racial segregation and defending slavery at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday.

K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans was giving a presentation at CPAC about how Republicans could reach out more effectively to minorities. Scott Terry, a member of the White Student Union, began challenging Smith about the inclusion of blacks in the GOP's tent, in an exchange captured by the liberal blog ThinkProgress that quickly spread around the Internet.

As seen in the video, Smith responds by citing a letter Frederick Douglass wrote in which he forgave his former owner. Terry interrupted and said, "For giving him shelter and food?" Several people in the audience gasp, though ThinkProgress notes there are also cheers. Terry muttered, "Why can't we just have segregation?" after the exchange, ThinkProgress reported.

When Smith mentioned Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Atlantic Wire reports, White Student Union "founder and commander" Matthew Heimbach interrupted that King was a "Marxist," and consequently not welcome. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/white-student-union-cpac_n_2897609.html

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1. 'founder and commander'

delusions of grandeur.

[Xipe Totec]

3. The title "Grand Dragon" was already taken. nt

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2. "How come there's never any White History Month or Students of Whiteness Coalition or something like

that?"

There are. And that's what it looks like.