White Supremacist --- and a Republican

“'Racially aware' councilman steps down

Hopewell appointee, a white supremist group member, heeds call after protests

Monday, July 14, 2003

BY JEFF DIAMANT
Star-Ledger Staff


Controversy over his ties to a white supremacist group has led newly appointed Hopewell Councilman Marc Moran to resign only days after residents and political leaders, including Gov. James E. McGreevey, called for him to step down.

During the week, Moran had said he would not resign.

But Moran, who in his writings has denounced cultural diversity, illegal immigration, Jews, gays, mixed-race couples and feminists, said he determined that the recent attention brought about by his membership in the West Virginia-based National Alliance threatened his effectiveness on the borough council. <snip>

In an interview last week, when asked if he considers himself racist, Moran said: "Everybody seems to put labels on everybody. I am racially aware. I believe my race has the right to look after its interests." <snip>

Moran, who had filed as a Republican to run in November for a full council term, said he will drop that election bid. <snip>

The Web site for National Alliance Chicago lists Moran as the author of an essay that mentions his achievements before adding: "Yet for years I have held my tongue each and every time I have observed a mixed race couple walk down the street..."

The essay also says, "Take your children out of the schools that would teach them that they are the problem instead of the solution. Stare back and point your own finger at the effrontery demonstrated by the homosexual, the feminist, the illegal immigrant, the Jew and the lemmings who think that they can call the shots..."

Yesterday, Moran maintained that he could have served on the council but for the uproar.”

“...free speech? free thought?...”

“Representative government?”

“TPM that only applies to some speech/thought.
*sarcasm*”

“Oh yeah... when it doesn't flow with the majority or leftists, then it's wrong.”

“we should have a truely colorblind society and then idiots would have to reason to be racist. as lond as government makes racial disticntions of any kind, for any reason, these problems will continue...”

“It's real sad to see that someone like this can achieve that sort of position with his views. However, I do happen to agree with him on one point- Lemmings are cool and all, but they DO NOT call the shots.”

“Uppity lemmings!”

“Look there --- another First Amendment purist (all-of-a-sudden).

Something tells me that the folks at the ACLU shouldn't hold their breaths waiting for your contribution.”

“I think you hit the nail on the head there...

A regular Nathan Hale!”

“Is anybody upset about West Virginia's very own Robert Byrd?”

“tilt, to whom are you speaking?

the ACLU rpresents NAMBLA.....over n out”

“The National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes??? DAMN THEM!!!”

“Where's lipstick hiker when we need her?”

“Meanwhile... in Edgefield, South Carolina... Strom Thurmond is still dead.”

“Free speech is free speech. They are not asking to punish they guy, they just don't want to be represented by a knuckle dragger. What's the issue? Would you wanna be governed by someone who openly hated white people?”

“Yeah, Donman, I guess had better not vote for BIG AL Sharpton!

Corporal Nasty said what I was thinking about lemmings.

Lemmings "calling the shots" is about as lame as, "Communist liberals".”

“8-ball in the corner pocket...”

“Never mind, I knew the answer when I asked the question.

Liberals/Democrats never have a problem with their guy being guilty of the same thing as they are condeming in a Republican.”

“Why couldn't they let voters decide?”

“This just shows the fallacy of trying to show certain behavior runs only in certain party lines. Stupidity knows no party lines.”

“Everyone brings Robert Byrd up. I don't know the guy's history, but I'd assume he has renounced his KKK ways in full. Am I wrong?

I'd still be suspicious of him if I were one of his constituents, and I'd keep an eye on his racial voting record.”

“Jeeze Nigal.

You're the only one on the thread who pointed out that certain behavior runs only in certain party lines.

Thanks. How could I have been so dumb to leave that part out?”

“"How could I have been so dumb to leave that part out?"

It would seem to just come naturally to you Skidmark.”

“You're really damaging my self-esteem.

I'll be back after a little cry.”

“Wow, what a long cry.”

“Less than a week after that Arkansas emergency chief quits over e-mailed poem we have the same Racist poem appears on Web site for GOP.”

“Violin why do your name letters change capitalization?”

“What do you mean?”

“Case Sensitive Log In! Two different user names! And he is a tool!”

“Attempt to comeback after a ban?”

“Now look what ya done FiDdLeBoY, ya got the trolls all confused. I hope you're happy.”

“8D”

“The log ins aren't case sensitive.”

“Ped, stop helping out the trolls!”

“FEAR REPUBLICANS! ! ! !


THEY ARE ALL EVIL! ! ! !


VIOLIN SAID SO ! ! !


SO DOES HOWARD DEAN! ! !


AND HILLARY CLINTON! ! !



AND ALASKA ! ! !


SO IT MUST BE TRUE ! ! !


FEAR FEAR FEAR ! ! ! !”

“GeoBeatsIt = Moron”

“Oooo, stratdewd like Howard Dean!”

“A law-enforcement source confirmed that Limbaugh, one day removed from resigning as an ESPN football analyst over a comment about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, has been implicated in a drug-ring investigation. The source said the radio and TV personality is not a principal target of the Florida investigation, which is focusing on drug dealers and has led to several arrests.

The source also confirmed a National Enquirer report that Limbaugh's former housekeeper Wilma Cline told prosecutors that she illegally supplied him with thousands of painkillers over more than four years, including at times more than 30 pills per day of the highly potent drug OxyContin. Limbaugh twice had undergone detoxification treatment, according to that report.


He denied knowledge of the investigation. "I am unaware of any investigation by any authorities involving me," Limbaugh said in a statement yesterday. "No governmental representative has contacted me directly or indirectly. If my assistance is required in the future, I will, of course, cooperate fully."

Whether Limbaugh, 52, faces prosecution could depend partly on the degree of that cooperation and the nature of the information he provides, the law-enforcement source said.





"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001757371_rush03.html”

“That's it,he's an Oxy-moron.”

“This is proof that all white men are pooP.

I think. They wish”

“It's gonna get reeeeel innerstin' 'round here when the Kobe trial gets underway.

Let's get a pool or something going.

I say by week 145, the defense will claim that the prosecutor's brother's next door neighbor's cousin's plumber once scribbled the "n" word on the washroom wall when in the third grade - or something like that - thus meriting a mistrial.

That racist beeyastad!”

“Penn St. GOP Chief Faces Blackface Furor

By DAN LEWERENZ
Associated Press Writer www.newsday.com

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A black student organization at Penn State called on the chairman of the university's College Republicans to resign over photos on his personal Web site of a white man in blackface and another photo with a Ku Klux Klan reference.

Black Caucus president Tiffanie Lewis on Thursday said the pictures were inappropriate for the leader of a student organization and urged the resignation of Brian Battaglia, chair of the College Republicans.

"It's not an isolated incident. We believe that it's part of the contentious racial climate at Penn State," Lewis said.

The pictures on Battaglia's Web site were among dozens of pictures from a Halloween party Battaglia hosted at his off-campus home.

One shows a white man in blackface, with the caption: "Apparently Takkeem was released long enough to come to our party. We thank the local police department." The caption was a reference to Undergraduate Student Government vice president Takkeem Morgan, who paid a fine last month after pleading guilty to criminal mischief regarding a stolen bicycle.

A second photo shows a white man wearing a pillow case as a hood with the caption: "He took a break from cross burning to drink a cold one."

Battaglia removed the photos from his Web site Thursday, but said it wasn't because of the Black Caucus' request. He added that he might post them again.

In a written statement, Battaglia decried the reaction as that of the "radical left."

"Their viewpoints, which posit that any action or speech that gives discomfort to a vocal minority should be cause for censorship, persecution, or demands for public apologies, are the greatest threat to liberty in our time."

Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon, in an e-mail to Battaglia, called the photos "an embarrassment to the entire university," and said Battaglia and other College Republicans should apologize.”

“"Their viewpoints, which posit that any action or speech that gives discomfort to a vocal minority should be cause for censorship, persecution, or demands for public apologies, are the greatest threat to liberty in our time."

Now that is a revealing statement. Joseph Goebbels couldn't have done better!”

“"One shows a white man in blackface, with the caption: "Apparently
Takkeem was released long enough to come to our party. We thank
the local police department." The caption was a reference to
Undergraduate Student Government vice president Takkeem Morgan, who paid a fine last month after pleading guilty to criminal mischief regarding a stolen bicycle."

Seems to me that Takkeem may have made himself a celebrity, enough of a (local) celebrity that folks go to Halloween parties dressed as him. The Supreme Court has ruled that celebrities are fair game and that to stifle satire would be an infringement on peoples rights to express themselves.

The KKK git-up is just ignorant, especially in Central Pa.”

“It's kind of ironic that the leader of the "Black Caucus" is insinuating that another student leader is racist.”

“If there's not a lot more to this story, it's CRAP.”

“Club offers whites-only scholarship

The College Republicans group at Roger Williams University says its $50 scholarship is making a statement against affirmative action.


BY ALEX KUFFNER
Journal Staff Writer

BRISTOL -- The application for the scholarship being offered at Roger Williams University reads like no other.

To be sure, it asks for all the standard information -- the applicant's name, age, year of graduation, grade-point average and a list of accomplishments and accolades -- but the topic of the essay sets it apart.

"In 100 words or less," it says, "write why you are proud of your white heritage and explain what being white means to you.

"Must attach recent picture to confirm whiteness," it adds. "Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants."

It may sound like a bad joke, but the White Scholarship Award, a $50 grant for a "student of non-color," is real, and Jason Mattera, the 20-year-old junior from Brooklyn, N.Y., who is behind it, says it's more than a publicity stunt for the College Republicans, a group that has gained notoriety on campus with its aggressive brand of conservatism.

As Mattera sees it, by offering the token scholarship, the student group is at once parodying minority scholarships at Roger Williams and making a broader statement against affirmative action.

"White kids are at a handicap," says Mattera, the president of the group. "Handing out scholarships based on someone's color is absurd."

How the Republicans' initiative has been received has had as much to do with its tone as its substance.

"I think they should engage the issues in a more academic manner," said June Speakman, an associate professor of political science and the group's faculty adviser. "We do need a discussion on whether race-based scholarships are a good policy or a bad policy. I just don't agree with their tactics."

CONSERVATIVE student groups across the country have taken a similarly combative approach to advance their arguments at universities they believe are dominated by liberals.

In Texas, California and Washington state, students have held "affirmative action bake sales," where brownies or cookies were offered at different prices to different races. Lawsuits in other parts of the country have sought to overturn diversity policies and student codes of conduct.

But Speakman says the white scholarship could be the first of its kind.

Typical of the College Republicans' past actions, the white scholarship has angered some people at the university.

After the Republicans handed out fliers on campus advertising the scholarship two weeks ago, members of the Student Senate questioned whether they had violated the university's Student Equality Act.

The act is a nondiscrimination policy that requires all campus clubs and organizations to treat all students equally without regard to race, gender or sexual orientation. If the College Republicans group is found to have violated the act, it could be fined or have its charter revoked.

"I understand that satire is one of their central tenets," said Erin Bedell, president of the Student Senate. "Personally, I think [the scholarship] needs to be evaluated."

The Student Senate has yet to make a decision.

The Faculty Senate also took up the issue during a meeting Feb. 4 but tabled it for further discussion.

The College Republicans are pushing forward despite the fuss.

"They wouldn't be so stupid to mess with us," Mattera said. "We'll give out the scholarship no matter what they say."

The group took out a full-page ad in last week's issue of The Hawk's Herald, the university's student newspaper. It advertises the scholarship and the visit on Wednesday of Reginald Jones, a critic of affirmative action who calls himself "the nuclear reaction to Jesse Jackson."

It's clear that the Republicans are delighted by the attention. A headline in a press release issued by the group last week said: "1st Annual Whites-Only Scholarship Ignites Controversy."

THE GROUP is certainly no stranger to trouble.

The university administration temporarily froze the College Republicans' money in the fall during a fight over a series of articles published in its monthly newsletter, The Hawk's Right Eye. In the past year, the newsletter has published stories attacking Democrats, Muslims and, recently, Kwanzaa.

The articles in the September issue accused homosexuals of squelching free speech by pushing for hate-crimes legislation and alleged that a well-known gay-rights group indoctrinates students into homosexual sex.

The issue also included an article from the WorldNetDaily Web site that describes the violent rape of a young man by an older man.

University President Roy J. Nirschel called the issue "pornographic in nature, puerile" and "mean-spirited" and said the university would "not condone publications that create a hostile environment for our students."

In the end, the matter became a question of free speech. No action was taken against the Republicans, and Mattera, the editor of the newsletter, landed on the cover of USA Today.

In regard to the scholarship, the university has chosen to stay out of the debate.

"It is not the typical place of a university to take an official stand on issues of public or campus debate, but rather to oversee that the arguments put forth by all constituencies are done so within university policies and in a nonviolent and nonthreatening manner," said Provost Edward J. Kavanagh. "All those members of the Roger Williams University campus have a voice that deserves to be heard should they choose to speak out."

"Further, the initiative is an independent action by a student organization and is not endorsed by Roger Williams University."

SOME SAY the College Republicans group has been disingenuous in making its stand against minority scholarships.

Speakman and others at the university have pointed out that Mattera himself is the recipient of a scholarship open only to a minority group.

Mattera, who is of Puerto Rican descent, readily admits that he was awarded a $5,000 scholarship from the Hispanic College Fund. He also receives an annual scholarship of $8,000 from Roger Williams.

He says he was given the money because of his academic achievement -- adding that he has a 3.9 grade-point average -- and plays down the role his ethnicity played in the scholarships being awarded.

And Mattera contends that his ethnic background only strengthens his position.

"No matter what my ethnicity is, I'm making a statement that scholarships should be given out based on merit and need," says Mattera, whose group also includes a Cuban and a Guatemalan. He says they support the white scholarship.

Roger Williams offers a handful of minority scholarships. They are paid for by either private foundations or families. The vast majority of the university's scholarships are open to all students, regardless of race, and many benefit from them.

According to Lynn Fawthrop, the university's vice president for enrollment management, a third of the university's 3,400 students receive annual scholarships of between $4,000 and $15,000.

THE COLLEGE REPUBLICANS thought up the white scholarship last spring when the university's Intercultural Center sent out a list of scholarships available to minorities.

Group members donated their personal money for the scholarship, and they waited until Jones' visit to offer it.

He was invited, the Republicans say, in observance of Black History Month. A poster announcing his visit says that "Black History Month is a ploy to spread socialism."

The topic of his lecture Wednesday evening? "How the civil-rights movement destroyed the black community."

Mattera says he has received several scholarship applications. Jones will announce the recipient of the scholarship before his talk.”

“Did they make you WORK today at work, or something?”

“Yeah - it was hell.”