BU group offers white scholarship (Boston University's College Republicans)

The Daily Free Press (Boston University) ^ | November 21, 2006 | Clarissa Bottesini

[television is just wrong]

I say, maybe it is about time. Why are white people evil? and non deserving?

[2banana]

Our country oppressed people of color for centuries while everyone else who was 'preferred' continued to succeed and lead our country in all aspects," the School of Management senior said in an email.

Where is mine? My grandparents were Slovakian immigrants that came with nothing in the 1930s. They worked 15 hour days as a maid and a cook to put one child through college. So far, I have not seen any "preferred" status coming my family's way...

[Wage Slave]

Me too. And about "b*lls," since my generation doesn't have any, it's nice to see that the next generation does.

[jiggyboy]

"While I can see the controversy over scholarships toward specific ethnic groups, we need to keep in mind its intention," she said. "The [group-specific] scholarship is there to increase the interest of students in that group to continue their education and reach the equality that we all strive for."

Apparently she's trying to imply that "people of color" are more worthy of these goals than whitey?

[NonValueAdded]

Mixed emotions about this one ... I applaud them for the gesture and throwing some gasoline on the preferences fire but I don't have an objection to groups granting private scholarships based on group identity. For example, I think the UNCF is a good organization even if their commercials give the impression that Samuel L. Jackson is their only recipient (come on, guys, surely you can cut a different commercial!!!). Why shouldn't the SAR or DAR be able to offer a scholarship based on lineage? Or a private school use a race-based scholarship to attract otherwise qualified minorities to their campus? That's the key: otherwise qualified. Still, a public institution needs to tread carefully when they start targeting subsets of the population. Perhaps it is best left up to the alumni and unaffiliated groups like the UNCF when it is not a private institution.

[taxcontrol]

Hey, how about Freepers chipping in $5 to this scholarship? Give me an address and my check is on the way.

[Onelifetogive]

La Fuerza Co-Chair Sara-Marie Pons, who is also on the Admissions Student Diversity Board, said although she agrees with BUCR's claim that racial preference is "contradictory to our American ideals of freedom and equality," she feels American history justifies today's affirmative action."

Much evil has been perpetrated by people saying, "I know its wrong, but..."

[Onelifetogive]

"For Ed Gillespie to be dismissive or to imply that there was racism, he lacked any type of -- to put it bluntly -- balls in standing up against racial preferences...

A college kid who has actually been educated about the real world...

[Jeffrey_D.]

I love it !!! It's about time, I wonder if someone there is doing the "Rush" ie illustrating the absurd with absurdity ??? What's next....White Student Union?

[VeniVidiVici]

"If you give out a white scholarship, it's racist, and if you give out a Hispanic scholarship, it is OK,"

I thought Hispanics were white.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Bad idea.


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

[freespirited]

I thought Hispanics were white.

Hispanics are an ethnic group, not a race.

The official line is that they can be of any race.

[Dead Corpse]

She said she believes minority-specific scholarships serve an important function.

As a white male living in Austin, TX... I AM a minority.

Affirmative Rascism needs to go away. This PO'ed cracker has had about all he can stand of this crap.

[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.

[brownsfan]

Our country oppressed people of color for centuries while everyone else who was 'preferred' continued to succeed and lead our country in all aspects,"

And there you have it... the left's self loathing voiced through this confused young person. We can never do enough, we will never be even. We must always punish white people in the name of making up for centuries of oppression. First off, even in oppressive times, the best of people of color managed to prosper. That's not to say there wasn't oppression, and that what oppression that occurred wasn't damaging. What it does say is that people need to motivate themselves, and put their best forward. A society simply can't engineer motivation and success of a group. Need evidience? How exactly is the African American community doing these days? 150 years removed from slavery, and multiple generations into being a preferred class, and they still have major problems with avoiding "being white", (avoiding success). It's time to do as Dr. King dreamed... judge the content of one's character. Look at one's body of work, and hire/award based solely on the individual. Those that fail, that is their problem. That is how life goes. But, that's way too logical for the liberal touchy-feely mind to comprehend.

[jackieaxe]

La Fuerza Co-Chair Sara-Marie Pons, who is also on the Admissions Student Diversity Board, said... the university's diversity creates a "better learning environment" and "dynamic discussion." She said she believes minority-specific scholarships serve an important function.

Follow the money. What do you think an Admissions Student Diversity Board member is going to say? Eliminate my useless job? Discrimination of any kind is wrong and in fact, eliminate the useless Admissions Diversity Board?

Jim Crow laws for white people.

[bjc]

Good for them. It certainly raises the debate. It also serves to flush out those who see reparations for wrongs committed to individuals in past generations as in any ways justified. Historical facts will quickly prove that those oppressed last year, were frequently the oppressors of others the year before. Reparations in any form that go beyond those directly impacted is a terrible and pernicious idea - one that will sow the seeds of significant ethnic and racial discord.

[Calvin Locke]

BU gives free tuition to convicted murderers serving time.

Unless they changed their policy.

I'm glad to see somebody at BU offering scholarships to white people so they don't have to commit murder.

[wtc911]

Looking to draw attention to what they call the "worst form of bigotry confronting America today," Boston University's College Republicans are circulating an application for a "Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship" that requires applicants be at least 25 percent Caucasian.

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Yeah, this will attract Black Americans to the party.

This is so mind-bogglingly stupid that I am tempted to think that dims-in-wolf's clothing run BU Young Republicans.