When he’s in these debates, when confronted with various claims, Matt should say something like, “that’s what black united students claim. What might white united student say”? Or simply, “What might the white student union claim”? It steers the issue around to the formation of these groups and what THEIR agenda might be about. Matt doesn’t speak for all whites, either. We’re a mighty force of whites of all stripes behind him.

Last time Matt went on about disease wiping out native people. Personally, I would avoid discussing this issue if at all possible. It’s certainly not on the agenda of white united students! Perhaps I am more extreme than Matt but I would say something like, “All I know about Small Pox is that scientists eradicated this disease in the 1950s”. If the issue was still up, you could ask the host, “You don’t believe scientists eliminated this disease’? I might perhaps even add that, “just as a coincidence, no book written prior to the 1950’s mentioned anything about whites eradicating people of color using small pox”. Perhaps even pressure them more, “Show me/us one source, prior to ‘1950’ then mentions whites using small pox as a weapon of any kind”. Probably best to avoid the issue, but mentioning that ‘scientists’ eliminated small pox (as would mentioning other good things) would be a positive thing to mention.

It might help to know the Exact year the UN declared small pox defeated and base your talk on that. You don’t need to know everything, no one could, but knowing a few specific things can be very helpful.

Anyway, I would say that, any chance I could, “What would white united students have to say about that/that issue”? If actually asked, ‘well what do they think’? you could bring up points of your agenda but, hopefully, there are at least several whites students, somewhere in the country, who are members of these groups, and so you could mention there’s a wide variety of opinion on the matter.