Riding Along With a Towson University Student’s ‘White Patrol’

[DonViejo]

Apr 24, 2013 4:45 AM EDT

After torpedoing a CPAC panel on race relations with comments about ‘his people,’ a young white supremacist is conducting patrols ‘to protect’ white classmates at Baltimore’s Towson University. Caitlin Dickson rode along with the man the Southern Poverty Law Center calls ‘the future of organized hate.’

He should be the most hated man on campus. But even his would-be adversaries have only nice things to say about Matthew Heimbach, the 22-­year-old founder and leader of the Towson White Student Union (WSU), a non­-university-affiliated group that is doing its part to stop the “genocide against the European people.”

“He’s really polite,” says Jonathan Smith, president of the Black Student Union at Towson, a public university of more than 20,000 students in Baltimore County, Maryland. The number of white students at Towson reflects the demographics of Baltimore County, making up 68 percent and 65 percent of the two populations, respectively. Yet while 26.8 percent of Baltimore County residents are black, only 13 percent of Towson students are. “He doesn’t want diversity, but I’ve never felt like he’s trying to belittle me or not want to be in my presence. We’ve just talked and chilled.”

It’s Heimbach’s views on race, not his pleasant demeanor, that have lured several reporters to this suburban college town in the past month. Back in March, the White Student Union went from a local news story to a national one when one of its members suggested, during a panel at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, that the Republican Party might benefit from segregation, and that Frederick Douglass's slave master did him a favor by providing him food and shelter. Since then, Heimbach and his crew have stayed in the spotlight with their announcement that they’d be patrolling the campus to combat what they claim is a prevalence crime targeted by black males against white females. As far as everyone else at the school is concerned, the talk of scouring the campus for crime so far has been just that: talk. But last week, Heimbach invited The Daily Beast, Vice magazine, and CNN (who ended up sending its reporter to Boston instead) to tag along on a patrol.

Heimbach is, indeed, polite. Chubby, with black, buzzed hair and dark, beady eyes, he speaks with a Southern inflection and sprinkles the word “ma’am” into his explanation of how he “awakened to the essential displacement of our people.” The oldest of three siblings, Heimbach was raised by two public-school teachers in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland. Heimbach credits the writings of conservative commentator Pat Buchanan with inspiring the creation of the White Student Union.

Full article:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/24/mostly-noise-riding-along-with-towson-s-white-pride-safety-patrol.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Interesting, "inspired by Pat Buchanan". Different group and the RW would

be wanting to lynch the Buchanan-figure for 'radicalizing' the youth.

[dballance]

2. Idiot: "the essential displacement of our people" - Talk To Native Americans Asshole

If he wants to talk about "displacement" of a people and genocide he might start by talking to the indigenous peoples of North America. You know, the ones we white people displaced from their ancestral lands to live in squalor on reservations. The ones we didn't kill through disease or violent means that is.

If I'm not totally mistaken the Native Americans are thought to have lived quite well in North America for thousands of years before we Europeans crossed the Atlantic. So, as short-term residents of continent we conquered through disease and violence I'm not sure we white people have a lot of room to whine and moan and complain about becoming a minority or being displaced.

[Go Vols]

3. +1000

[DLevine]

5. Thank you, well said. nt

[Rex]

4. A polite racist, gotta be one in every million.

'Displacement of our people' you say? Well I am a white male, why don't I feel displaced? Oh right, because that is full blown, racist horseshit!

Does he know the racial demographics of this country? Does he know the history of this country? Does he know anything beyond skin color?