Texas State student body president refuses to buckle to anti-white racism at university

Washington Free Beacon:
Texas State University's student body president said he will not buckle to calls for him to step down after he condemned the campus newspaper for printing a controversial article calling for "white death."

Connor Clegg said the demand for his resignation from groups such as the Pan African Action Committee (PAAC) is "ridiculous and their justifications even more so," standing by his criticism of the University Star‘s publication last week of a column titled, "Whiteness: Your DNA is an abomination."

The author of that piece, Rudy Martinez, was fired from the Star for his piece that argued individuals aren't "born white" but "became white."

"[R]emember this: I hate you because you shouldn't exist," Martinez wrote, addressing white people directly. "You are both the dominant apparatus on the planet and the void in which all other cultures, upon meeting you, die."

Clegg has led a faction of the campus population outraged by the printing of such a piece in a student-funded paper. He has called for Star editor-in-chief Denise Cervantes and opinions editor May Olvera to be removed from their posts. Should they remain, Clegg said in a statement on Nov. 29, he will push for full divestment of student fees from the newspaper.

"There is no reason for over 39,000 students to be forced to invest their students fees towards this brand of journalism," he concluded.

An online petition calling for the paper to be defunded has garnered 1,654 signatures as of Monday.

The Star has since deleted the Martinez piece from its website and apologized, writing, "We screwed up."
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Clegg told the Washington Free Beacon that under current leadership, the Star "has continuously put to print divisive, racially charged, and extremist articles such as ones proclaiming that black people can't be racist, wealthy people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, the First Amendment is only for white people, and a celebration of communism on its 100th anniversary."

"[Olvera] is clearly a problem for this university and I will continue to work to see that students demands are met regarding her resignation," he said.
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Anti-white racism should be condemned just like any other form of racism.   Apparently, this was not the only such matter the student newspaper has engaged in.  Clegg is right to condemn the material.  What is clear from this event is that racists come in all colors and national origins.  The people practicing this are every bit as repugnant as the KKK.

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