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Georgia State student organizations rally against the âWhite Lives Matterâ movement lurking on campus
Stickers emblazoned with âWhite Lives Matterâ have been popping up around Georgia State Universityâs campus for the past month, and the people behind them are currently unknown.
For Georgia State students who remember the White Student Union controversy back in 2013, Patrick Sharp is an easy scapegoat. Sharp, however, refuted this claim, but does say that many people have approached him about the stickers, many of whom could have been the creator.
âMany, if not most white students are tired of racial double standards but donât want to have lunatics coming after them, as I have. So I donât know who did it exactly. It could have been any number of people,â he said.
Still, Sharp defended the stickers and said the message behind them is that white people shouldnât be attacked based on being white. He said white people are not âuniquely evil.â
When asked how these stickers should be dealt with, Sharp said they should be left alone.
âGeorgia State should do nothing. Itâs not the schoolâs business to tell people what they can say and think. If people want the school to tell them what they should say and think, they are probably a little too delicate to be attending college to begin with,â he said.
Shakira Thomas, Georgia State freshman and biology major, also said the stickers should not be considered offensive, because they are not a threat. She said they have the same message as âBlack Lives Matterâ or âAll Lives Matter.â
âI think itâs supposed to mean that white people want to direct attention to injustices and inequalities that they face, just like police brutality within the black lives matter movement,â she said.
Tori Franklin, Georgia State sophomore and nutrition major, never noticed the actual stickers, just the flyers for anti-racist demonstrations. She said she felt the message behind the stickers could have been a genuine call for attention to white issues, but they probably came out of ignorance.
Georgia State student organizations rally against the âWhite Lives Matterâ movement lurking on campus