Which scholarship program are you talking about? His Gates Cambridge Scholarship is open to anyone.
The B&M Gates foundation scholarship that is set up exclusively for blacks and their advancement. (You'll have to look it up - I don't have time right now.)That's okay.
*What I really admire Gates for are the scholarship funds his foundation set up for the children of killed or wounded members of the U.S. military. What could be more honourable, more patriotic than to do so? The U.S. military is composed of racial, ethnic, socio-economic and two-gender diversity - truly representative of America.
*I could be mistaken...