[LauraleeBraswell]

Bad idea.


We are looking at it from a race standpoint. Whereas many blacks identify with being black as an ethnicity.

[NonValueAdded]

Isn't Caucasian an ethnicity too? That's what it says on all the forms.

Actually, the trend is towards full-employment for genealogists since the success of the melting pot is blurring racial and ethnic lines. Consider Akaka's Hawaiian parallel government initiative where you'd have to find (and presumably document) a single Hawaiian great-grandparent. As far as African-American ancestry, will we be forced to add back words like octoroon to the US Code? It is going to come down to that. Who will qualify for a "black" scholarship? Perhaps this is what SCOTUS had in mind when setting a date for the expiry of preferences. That and the statistical likelihood that Whites would then qualify as a bona fide minority.

[Onelifetogive]

We are looking at it from a race standpoint. Whereas many blacks identify with being black as an ethnicity.

Good point. The scholarship should only be offered to people who "think" white, not to people who are white...

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