No, the headline is not misleading. White people are barred from applying to this scholarship.
While I actually agree that he should be able to spend his own money how he wises, you & I both know that a scholarship that barred Blacks would never pass muster....and I have serious doubts that it would be defended by you to be honest.
The title says: No Whites Need Apply For Bill Gates Scholarship, and that is, in fact, misleading. Whites need not apply for the Gates Millennium Scholarship, which was set up for a specific purpose, to reach a specific audience.
My white son or daughter could very well apply for another Gates scholarship; thus the headline is, in fact, misleading.
As has been pointed out there are scholarships galore restricted to every race, ethnic group and religion in this country. So you’re going to post that “Jews Need Not Apply to Knights of Columbus Scholarship?” or “Catholics Need Not Apply to B’nai B’rth Scholarship?” That’s really earth-shattering!
On balance, if you were to balance ALL scholarships, you would find that blacks are restricted from many of them, simply because they do not belong to the particular ethnic group funding it. Not a whole lot of black or Asian Polish/Irish/Italian/Norweigian, etc., students out there. But all of those groups DO have scholarships exclusively for ‘their own.’ And it does pass muster. And I do defend their right to do it.
I would imagine, because there are or were few scholarships dedicated to minority or new immigrant groups, the Gateses established the Millennium fund. And, while I strenuously object to Affirmative Action in hiring and college admissions, I have no problem whatsoever with a private scholarship dedicated to minorities.