A fifteen-year-old high school student, Lisa McClelland, wants to start a “caucasian club” at her high school because she doesn’t feel like she fits into any of the other clubs. She sees her club as an alternative for people who feel like they don’t belong in the Black Student Union or other race-based clubs. She wants to create, according to the San Jose Mercury News, ” a haven for those who don’t fit into such categories.” Apparently, McClelland is mixed-race.

It’s funny that she would choose “caucasian” as the umbrella term for people who don’t see themselves as any particular race. This was exactly what European immigrants of the nineteenth century chose to do as a way to erase their national differences and form a new, “American” community. Of course, we all know that whiteness didn’t turn out to be a very inclusive category in the end. Hard to say if McClelland is calling for a new kind of reactionary race politics or if she’s just clueless. Why didn’t she start a club devoted to a hobby or something if she didn’t like the idea of racial clubs in the first place?