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No Whites Need Apply For Bill Gates Scholarship
Gates Millennium Scholars ^ | 02/03/10 | me

Posted on 02/04/2010 8:26:19 PM PST by DwFry

Bill Gates has made his scholarship fund off limits to white teenagers. The Gates Millennium Scholarship fund is financed by a $1 Billion endowment Bill Gates made in 1999. The fund explicitly denies eligibility to white students.

“Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they: Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;"


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To: EDINVA

.......its aas if Im talking to a child.

Not a single one of those was a “Whites only” Scholarship fund....not one.

Again, for the life of me, I cant understand why you would advocate such a double standard that works against your own children.


161 posted on 02/05/2010 6:59:14 AM PST by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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To: DwFry

Whites should stop buying his software crap then.


162 posted on 02/05/2010 7:14:48 AM PST by Force of Truth (Yes political conservatives are libertarians. They want to have their rights and eat them too.)
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To: DwFry
Hmmmmm. I wonder if the applicants have to LOOK black as well as BE black. I personally know of the son of a black man and white woman who does not LOOK black at all ... fair skin, nearly blonde hair, and blue eyes. Would he qualify? Would he be denied the scholarship once they took a look at him?

Who decides how black is black?
Enquiring minds want to know.

163 posted on 02/05/2010 7:20:24 AM PST by RightField (A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.)
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To: garyhope

A similar situation where my business is located. We were courted into taking a grant from the state for money we really did not need. However; free money is always tempting.

One year later, we were required to fill out a questionnaire on who worked for us.

How many - black, Latino,Asian,other.......

I guess whites fall into other.....


164 posted on 02/05/2010 7:51:01 AM PST by beericus (Putting the cool in conservatism, dip in the hip and a glid in the stride.)
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To: svcw
I remember someone who only wanted to sell his house, "HIS HOUSE" to only a white person
and he was sued out of his house. So, what's that you say about "His Money"?

Oh wait, whites cannot be discriminated against. IE. African farms.

165 posted on 02/05/2010 7:56:08 AM PST by MaxMax (Lets get a sense)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Anyone looking for scholarships should really research because there are many many available by various groups and companies for all sorts of criteria from writing an essay to being at least 50% Greek or whatever.


166 posted on 02/05/2010 8:55:18 AM PST by visualops (Freepin' on my Pre!)
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To: svcw
“The bottom line its his money and he can give it to whom ever he wants.”

While this is true, can you imagine the S*** storm that would cover him if he had said that any other race had been ineligible for his scholarships? What if he had specifically excluded Hispanics or blacks instead of white kids? The bottom line is it's more than ok to discriminate against whites in the United Socialist States of Amerika. It's expected.

167 posted on 02/05/2010 9:37:23 AM PST by monday
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To: Gingersnap

“To be fair, there are scholarships only open to whites...”

Seriously? Which ones?


168 posted on 02/05/2010 9:39:02 AM PST by monday
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To: DwFry

Monster. com It’s called WORKFORIT, Whitey. :>}


169 posted on 02/05/2010 9:46:38 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: DwFry
men who look like old lesbians

Wednesday, April 30, 2008


Bill Gates. Gazillionaire entrepreneur who, along with two friends, opened first Starbucks in Seattle in 1971. There are now more than 15,000 stores world wide. Despite recent setbacks, last year revenue reached more than $ 9 billion. Soccer coach.

170 posted on 02/05/2010 9:55:43 AM PST by Harrius Magnus (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable)
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To: J Edgar
So what happens to poor white kids in Billy's world? Are they tossed under the bus just because Billy is a guilty ridden lib-tard?

Well, they can always apply for another scholarship funded by the Gates Foundation - there appear to be at least four separate scholarship funds.
171 posted on 02/05/2010 10:23:10 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Conservativism

So “minorities” don’t have to have any intellectual abilities or talent or have done any hard work or studying, just have an “ethnic” skin color. A free pass for being “oppressed”. More “liberal” baloney.


172 posted on 02/05/2010 10:26:40 AM PST by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

That’s good to know. I was laboring under the false assumption that this was the only scholarship offered.


173 posted on 02/05/2010 10:29:48 AM PST by J Edgar
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To: dennisw

What about this being a United Negro College Fund- administered series of scholarships for itself, for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, for the American Indian Graduate Center Scholars and Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund do you not get ?

Did you follow the link and look at the scholarships? Or did you just follow your instinct to feel angry because some billionaire set up a fund to finance college educations for some minority kids? These are scholarships that take not one dime from any white kid.

If a bill were put forth in Congress to finance college educations for high-achieving, financially disadvantaged minority students with taxpayer dollars, the very same people b!tching on this thread would be screaming that it is a private matter that should not be funded by the government/taxpayers, but that wealthy individuals who want to see that result should step forward to fund it. Gates has done just that.

If you cannot understand the difference between Affirmative Action in college admissions or employment, or civil rights as to voting, housing, accommodations and employment as mandated by law, compared to an personal donation to an umbrella organization that oversees scholarships for minority students, there is little hope. In that case, you’d best stay away from any IQ comparisons.


174 posted on 02/05/2010 11:50:32 AM PST by EDINVA (Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: svcw

“The bottom line its his money and he can give it to whom ever he wants.”

Yes, but the fact that he excludes whites tells us something, doesn’t it?


175 posted on 02/05/2010 12:39:16 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Gingersnap

“there are scholarships only open to whites”

Do you have an example?


176 posted on 02/05/2010 12:40:04 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: The Comedian

“Every time you don’t pirate MS software, you support racism.”

I just can’t do it any more. I can’t support that racist.


177 posted on 02/05/2010 12:44:23 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
No. It doesn't tell us anything but that this particular scholarship targets particular people with particular qualifications.
And I don't care. There are billions of dollars of scholarships available to students, many are never used, all of them have exclusions of some sort.
You don't like this one find another.
This is a private foundation from a private person, he can make whatever exclusions he wants.
This is not housing, or employment or police protection or military service it is private money by a private individual.
178 posted on 02/05/2010 12:46:03 PM PST by svcw (If you are going to quote the Bible know what you are quoting.)
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To: svcw

Seems to me that you are focused on a given argument, having to do with telling someone what to do with his money.

That’s not the argument I’m making. I also respect private property.

However, not all legal uses of private property are admirable. George Soros, for instance, is using his private property to try and destroy the US.

Yes, it’s Gates’ money, and he can use it as he likes. And if he uses it to further injustice or some other unfortunate consequence, people like me can criticize him for it.


179 posted on 02/05/2010 1:08:09 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: EDINVA
This is what it says at the link----->>> 

http://www.gmsp.org/publicweb/aboutus.aspx

Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they:

• Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;

Everyone in America can get in on this scholarship except for white students
The black only and Hispanic only scholarships you mention should also be challenged in a court of law
But those scholarships doesn't rise the level of exclusionary racism that the Bill Gates scholarships do
It is plain racist to exclude only one racial group, whites
At least with your United Negro College Fund they are excluding whites, Asians, American Indians (some have a lot of black blood though and might qualify) Hispanics are also excluded unless you are Negro Hispanic I guess

How about someone who immigrates from Africa or Jamaica at age 14 with his parents?
This clown who immigrated to the big bad racist USA can get a Bill Gates college scholarship and my son can't? 
This is one reason why would like to curtail 3rd world immigration
These people come over here and get all kinds of racial preferences and affirmative action
My people have been here 100 years..... so some black or Hispanic can immigrate here and get put ahead of me via these various racial spoils systems

180 posted on 02/05/2010 1:41:59 PM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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