[jackieaxe]

wtc911:

Respectfully, I disagree with you. I concede your point on the private intuition although BU is just as pregnant with government grant and loan money as the next university and they do occupy prime Boston Real Estate and are considered a taxfree institution who charge (I guessing) $30K for yearly tuition. This program highlights how ridiculous it is to award scholarships based on race. It reflects back on the Hi**arys, Kerrys and Obamas just how extreme are their positions. Also, rather than worry about the republicans "whites only" tag, I'd like someone in the press ask the Democrats why they continually lose a majority of the white male vote. I think actions like this (white only scholarship) bring these issues to discussion points, and race based scholarships lose when that happens.

[wtc911]

Thank you for the reasoned response. Allow me to expand on my line of thought and why I believe that this effort is either very stupid or being pushed by the equivelant of fifth columnists.

For the first time in modern history there are cracks starting to appear in the dems hold on the Black vote. Their policies are not working as they did for various reasons. Among these are the dems embrace of low-wage illegal workers who will replace the low-wage Black worker and the growth of a Black middle class that is starting to become more conservative or at least less liberal.

The dems know that they can't hold on without changing and they don't know how to change, so what can they do? They can play to the long-held fear among Black America that the GOP is racist (remember Dean said that the only Blacks at a gathering of the GOP were the waiters).

Now, there are two ways to see the college Republican effort to set-up a 'Whites-only' program...

1)It is a legitimate effort by legitimate GOPers. The idea may be emotionally satisfying to some but it must be judged by the ultimate results. Those results will not be to obtain more funds for White students or to reduce the funds earmarked for Black students. The result will be a public discourse wherein the GOP will be painted as the party for Whites not for Blacks (rightfully so given the context).

The left are not fools. They will not stand at the plate and let this home-run pitch go by without swinging for the seats. And they will hit it out of the park. The net result will be a Black recoil from the GOP back to the loving arms of Jesse Jackson and Hillary ("You know what I'm talking about") Clinton. In other words, a PR disaster for the GOP and an easy win for the devil.

No real gain, plenty of down-side...that to me is stupidity on parade.

2) The effort is being pushed by dems posing as GOPers. This is not difficult to imagine, especially given the fact that the Dean of Students, who must authorize the activity, is a Black man who spent years in Boston as a Labor Relations attorney (you can't get more liberal than that). I have no problem believing that this whole effort is a scam for political gain. If this is the case then they have already profited from the deception in the world of Public Relations.