White Student Unions: White Nationalist Minor League?
Editorâs note: Further information about Sharpâs activities in the white nationalist movement has come to light. Sharp is a member of the white supremacist website Stormfront, where his user profile lists him as a sustaining member who joined in December 2011. , though it appears Sharp has changed his nickname on both Stormfront and YouTube since Liberty Lamp posted the shots yesterday. As a result, his original username, âpsharp94â no longer appears on Stormfront. He is now âsportlineâ (formerly âfrozenpie77â) on Stormfront and âbarron leviâ (formerly âfrozenpie77â) on YouTube.
Matthew Heimbach created quite a stir at Towson University in Baltimore when he created his âWhite Student Unionâ last year and proceeded to launch night patrols to keep students safe from black-on-white crime.
Now, such organizations are sprouting on more campuses. This week, we got news that a at George State University in downtown Atlanta. Its mission is to âunite white students to advocate for their interests and the interests of white people, while celebrating heritage, culture, promoting a sense of âwhite identity,â and working in unison with other campus organizations to tackle issues that affect us all.â
Until yesterday, the WSUâs website linked to the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), which it referred to as a âsister organization.â The white nationalist TYN, which was started earlier this year with Heimbachâs help, appears to be serving as an informal umbrella for white student unions.
The Georgia State student newspaper, The Signal, that when the WSUâs founder, Patrick Sharp, an 18-year-old student from Birmingham, Ala., was confronted with some of the images on the TYN site, he denied that his group is racist and said that he to participate. Soon thereafter, the link and reference to TYN as a sister organization had been erased from the groupâs website. The TYN, meanwhile, still lists the Georgia State WSU as a chapter.
Given the TYNâs links to white nationalism and the very public history of the White Student Union at Towson, it seems disingenuous for Sharp to claim that black students are welcome in his White Student Union.
Sharp may not be open about his white nationalism, but he has left Internet footprints that certainly point in that direction. Earlier this year, for example, he posted at the white nationalist site. The post highlighted a book about 1960s civil rights activities in Birmingham, Ala., by âPaul Kersey,â who blogs at Stuff Black People Donât Like and at the white nationalist site . âSeeing as how this is my city,â Sharp wrote, âIâll have to check this out.â
The Atlanta-based blog Biscuette did into Sharp and his WSU. In a post yesterday, âle biscuetteâ noted that on Sharpâs Facebook page his âlikesâ included the TYN, a âWhite History Monthâ page (a sponsor of an upcoming motorcycle ride against a mythical âwhite genocideâ) and Verum Justica, an anti-Islamic group that models itself after ancient Christian crusaders. He also responded to a post by TYN regarding the formation of the WSU. The profile was unavailable yesterday but was back up today. Nevertheless, it appears Sharp has made most of it private, as the more inflammatory "likes" that Biscuette pointed out are no longer visible, nor are most of his posts.
Heimbach is not so coy about his white nationalism. He recently posted a piece on the TYN site titled âI Hate Freedom,â which said: âNon-whites do not have the rights or freedom to move into white nations. This is our home and our kith and kin. Further, âThose who promote miscegenation, usury, or any other forms of racial suicide should be sent to re-education centers, not tolerated.â
On its website, the Towson WSU links unabashedly to white nationalist websites and to groups like the , the descendant of the White Citizens Councils formed in the Deep South to oppose desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Â The neo-Confederate is also listed on the Towson WSU site; the League calls for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by whites. American Renaissance is another link; the groupâs founder, Jared Taylor, has claimed that, âWhen blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization â any kind of civilization â disappears.â
In May, Heimbach announced that the Towson WSU would merge with the TYN.
Heimbachâs co-administrator at the Traditionalist Youth Network is Matt Parrott, former head of an Indiana chapter of the crudely racist CCC and founder of Lighthouse Literature, a white nationalist online bookstore that closed in July 2012 after about 18 months in business
Heimbachâs WSU â a direct descendant of his Towson chapter of , which collapsed in the spring of 2012 â garnered lots of media attention when it launched âcampus patrolsâ ostensibly to protect students from crime. A February post at the Towson WSU site claimed that the patrols were meant to protect students from â.â The post claimed that, âFor those who are not Towson students it seems hard to fathom that every single day black predators prey upon the majority white Towson University student body.â
Heimbach is, in fact, extremely active in white nationalist groups. He is the president of what the CCC calls its Baltimore âsubchapter.â Heâs also a member of the League of the South and a frequent attendee at white nationalist conferences and gatherings like meeting outside Nashville, Tenn., where he asked speakers how to move forward in creating a white homeland.
The Towson WSUâs notoriety has managed to spawn at least one other imitator. This past spring, , a 57-year-old community college student in Texas, started a white student union (not listed at TYN). He is also attempting to establish a âwhite history monthâ on campus to combat what he claims is âdiscrimination against Caucasians,â and heâs trying to get official college recognition of his group. Railey, who is pursuing a degree in applied science, was in the past elected a Tarrant County, Texas, precinct chair and has served as an election judge. In 2012, he that the presence of a copy of at a polling place was âextremely inappropriate and probably a federal election law violationâ because it was âan attempt to intimidate, bully, and threaten white voters.â
Railey, who calls himself âMstr Rick,â keeps a blog, which links to American Renaissance and to the (formerly American Third Position), a white nationalist political party. He claims that he has become âenamoredâ of the âWhite Ethno-Centrist Movement.â âWhite people are my people,â he writes, and âchallenging the deeply entrenched anti-white bias of multiculturalists [sic] orthodoxies is a moral imperative for whites.â