The meaning of a disadvantaged group organizing to get a fair shake and an advantaged group organizing to hang on to its advantages are totally different. Here at SIUE, the faculty remains overwhelmingly white. On predominantly white campuses generally, survey after survey has shown that African American students feel isolated and unwelcome. This is a key reason why black students who enter SIUE and other predominantly white colleges are far less likely than whites to stay. Faced with such problems, it is entirely appropriate for black students to organize, offer one another support, and work to change the often- unfriendly environment of the campuses where they study.
White students face no such problems.
In fact, being an advantaged group with greater access to college, they enjoy advantages rather than suffering disadvantages because of their race. In fact, where white student associations have been formed on campuses, they have often been a front group for racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. In a cartoon below the one to which I am objecting, the Alestle cartoonist rightly condemned the Ku Klux Klan. It's a shame he can't see the connection.