Posted on 01/07/2010 7:25:12 AM PST by edcoil
America's richest man has set up a college scholarship and "white" people are not allowed.
My daughter is starting college next year, like most parents we are attending college financing workshops to figure out a way to afford it.
We were presented with a list of scholarships as well and one struck me, the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
You have to apply by January 11 BTW if you qualify but to qualify, you must be: "African American, Asian, Hispanic or Native American.
Racism is wrong when it is in any direction.
Personally, I see a difference between setting up a scholarship for ONE specific class (lefties, blacks, etc...) and setting up a scholarship for everyone EXCEPT one class of people. But that’s just me.
What if a private company had a job opening you were interested in and said only black, latinos, asians, native anericans could apply would you feel the same way? It’s a legit question I think.
Scholarships are set up for all kinds of reasons and when people use their own money to do it, well thats the way it goes.
Well according to modern evolutionary theory we were fish too and grew legs and the came on shore,so the burning question is we have to prove what color of fish we were?.
But setting up a scholarship for everyone BUT left-handed, cross-eyed, gender-confused basketball players rubs me the wrong way.
That's all I'm saying.
It’s his money, he can do whatever he wants.
Of course, that wouldn’t apply if you wanted to set up a scholarship and only allow whites to apply. But it should.
Read my #30, you responded to #28.
I think the analogy you presented has been presented to us in lots of ways, not the least among them, “affirmative action”, which, stretching it just a bit, pretty much follows the employment contours you just laid out.
But scholarships, in and of themselves, are subject to far different rules, like lots of posters on this thread already pointed out. The far more interesting scenario we discussed was someone coming up with a “Whites Only” scholarship, then sitting back with his attorney and watching the fireworks and countersuits. It would be a good way to make a point, but very few people would “get it”, precisely because of the
traditional scholarship arguments. What Gates is doing is just an extension of what the government has been doing for a long time-—he’s just doing it with his “own money”.(But maybe it could set off a shareholder’s challenge, now that I think of it) Freegards, supremedoctrine.
DO worry about it.
My daughter got shut out on scholarships.
If your daughter has not gotten any scholarships then she is not applying to enough places. It is work to get scholarships and grants but they are there, plenty and for all kinds of reasons.
When I was in college (late 60’s early 70’s) there were black only scholarships / grants. It is nothing new. There is plenty of money out there, it just takes work to get it.
I figured that out years ago....when my kids were teenagers.
I have set one up myself.
Science majors who are also taking an arts course with A average across the board. :)
That sounds great.
Yeah, I’m quite happy with it. The school didn’t like the criteria (donor selection, merit based) until we told them we’ll either do it the way we want to do it, or we won’t do it at all.
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