My son once asked me about Pell Grants some time before he applied to Georgia Tech. I told him that I work and that he is white. He wouldn’t get any kind of grant.
He later graduated with honors after an entire run on the deans list not having paid one cent because of the Georgia Hope Scholarship fund.
We tried three times to get my late step-son into Job Corps to learn a trade. All the other applicants I saw were minorities and were welcomed with open arms. They ignored him blatantly. BTW, they had Obama-themed posters all over the place.