No Whites Need Apply For Bill Gates Scholarship

Gates Millennium Scholars ^ | 02/03/10 | me

[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;"

[slapshot]

let me get this straight: Parents who are veterans, have zero debt and are employed Son is type 1 diabetic for 10 years with a 1450 SAT and #1 in his class is SOL b/c he is Caucasian?

However someone with a lot of melanin whose mommy and daddy make 1mm, has a 800 SAT and a police record and he gets the dinero?

what is wrong with this picture?

[gibtx2]

there is an old story of gates stealing the technology from a usaf captian in albuquerque, new mexico many many years ago. The captain who was the brains got transfered... gates got the code.

[svcw]

There are 50 predominately black colleges in the United States and nearly all offer “white only scholarships”. They are looking for diversity on the campus. So there you go.

[Inappropriate Laughter]

To: HiTech RedNeck Excuse me, “the software” was the operating system for the first IBM pc’s. It was not written by Gates he bought it. Hi mommy was on a charity board with the president of IBM and established the connection. His daddy, a corporate lawyer wrote the contract so Microsoft would own the code, not IBM. Gates is smart. He is also very arrogant. But, he did not write the operating system that launched Microsoft. 70 posted on 02/04/2010 9:59:33 PM PST by gleneagle M.

You are right that he's not a coding wizard, but he was a hard-knuckled business genius. As I recall he wrote a very early simple BASIC --maybe he didn't do it himself. Why IBM gave Gates a monopoly on DOS seems a mystery--the old line IBM wouldn't have done that, but the skunk-works group who put together the original IBM PC was just trying to slap together something to compete with Apple and the other early micro makers, and weren't thinking too many steps into the future. Gates was. Gates had a lot of ego invested in MS-BASIC. I purchased the original 128 Macintosh computer, Apple had developed a very nice BASIC for it but Gates told Jobs that if Apple released it MicroSoft would not release any software for the Mac, so Macintosh BASIC never shipped. Instead I had a useless, worthless MS-BASIC interpreter. I was very pissed.

[Mamzelle]

How does this pass muster with the civil rights bill of 64?

[DwFry]

link?

[svcw]

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Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;
• Are a citizen/legal permanent resident or nationals of the United States;
• Have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale (un-weighted);
• Will be enrolling for the first-time at a U.S. accredited* college or university as a full-time, degree-seeking, first-year student in the fall of 2010; or GED
• Have demonstrated leadership abilities through participation in community service, extracurricular or other activities;
• Meet the Federal Pell Grant* eligibility criteria; and
• Have all three forms (Nominee Personal Information Form completed by the student, Nominator Form completed by an educator familiar with the student’s academic record and a Recommender Form completed by a person familiar with the student’s leadership and community service) submitted by the deadline.

[svcw]

Do a google search, thats what I did.

[garyhope]

Ya beat me to it, but if anything is going to make me buy a Mac, this could be it.

We, the world needs more operating systems.

[svcw]

What’s a “real” scholarship?
My daughter went to a private Christian college, and had zero student loans because of her academic and other grants and scholarships, the largest was $2,000. I would say 90% were less than $500.

[Conservativism]

Gates millenium scholarship is for minorities only. The more prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship is open to anyone. It’s a reasonable system.

[HiTech RedNeck]

No double dip for Australian aborigines now in the States?

[EDINVA]

And then there’s the Gates Cambridge Scholars, with no racial, ethnic or religious qualifiers, only intellectual.

http://www.gatesscholar.org/about/

Frankly, how Bill and Melinda Gates choose to spend their money isn’t any of my or your business. They are both left leaning uberCapitalists.

[DwFry]

Then it shouldn’t be hard for you to back up your claims should it?

[DwFry]

“Gates millenium scholarship is for minorities only.”

Yes, that why we’re having this discussion.

“It’s a reasonable system.”

Would it be just as reasonable had Blacks been specifically barred from qualifying?

[DwFry]

“Frankly, how Bill and Melinda Gates choose to spend their money isn’t any of my or your business. They are both left leaning uberCapitalists.”

In theory, I agree but we both know thats not the world we live in.

[Conservativism]

Look he sets scholarships for underprivileged minorities and everyone. The one only for underprivileged minorities is the less prestigious of the two. Are you seriously arguing that private individuals don’t have the right to spend their money as they please? That’s a very poorly reasoned stance.

[DwFry]

I’ll ask again since you obviously missed it before.

“Would it be just as reasonable had Blacks been specifically barred from qualifying?”

[Conservativism]

since you clearly can’t make inferences, i’ll spell it out for you. yes. private actors should be able to spend their money as they please.

[svcw]

I am not doing it for you.