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‘Whites only’ Columbia $hock
New York Post ^ | May 15, 2013 | JULIA MARSH

Posted on 05/15/2013 7:47:37 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Jim Crow may be dead in most of America — but not at Columbia University.

Almost 50 years after the Civil Rights Act ended legal discrimination, the bastion of liberalism is finally trying to change one of its scholarships, which is restricted to “whites only.”

The Ivy League school’s Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that the funds be given only to “a person of the Caucasian race.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: colleges; columbia; columbiau; educationfunding; preferences; race; scholarships
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To: ConservativeStatement

I’m not sure there is a legal definition of a “white person” or a caucasion (I don’t know anyone who can vouch absolutely for their great grandmother) and who gets paid to enforce the Iowa residency requirement?


21 posted on 05/15/2013 7:55:43 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: ConservativeStatement

If the courts rule this scholarship is illegal, will that mean all race based scholarships, including those restricted to minorities, are also illegal?


22 posted on 05/15/2013 7:55:58 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: ConservativeStatement

Are blacks only, latinos only, etc., scholarships legal and allowed at Columbia or other schools? If so, while I don’t like any of these race based scholarships, the whites only one should be treated no differently.

All of these restricted scholarships are, to some extent, racist, but it would be 10,000 times more racist to allow scholarships for certain groups, but not for others.


23 posted on 05/15/2013 7:58:12 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Why?
Aren’t there plenty of scholarships for that are for various minority groups, only?
If they want to change those scholarships for blacks, women, etc., as well, to be for all applicants, then changing this scholarship would be fine with me. Otherwise, they are “racist.”


24 posted on 05/15/2013 7:58:32 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I told them I was a left handed disabled black lesbian Muslim immigrant from a former Soviet puppet state. They’re paying me $100,000 to take an on line womyn’s studies course. They’ve also gotten me an interview with the State Department, which I was told is just a formality.


25 posted on 05/15/2013 7:59:28 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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To: GreenHornet

I think that most leftist courts would acknowledge the double standard and let it continue.


26 posted on 05/15/2013 7:59:29 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Bender2

Alcoholic robots don’t have souls, thus no scholarships. :)


27 posted on 05/15/2013 7:59:45 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ConservativeStatement

Are there blacks only and Hispanic only scholarships?


28 posted on 05/15/2013 8:00:19 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ConservativeStatement

They can refuse to give out the grants, but the cant give the money against its terms. If the court deems the grant unenforceable, then they may have to give the money back to the lady’s heirs. You dont get to keep the money and dictate the terms of the gift.


29 posted on 05/15/2013 8:00:41 AM PDT by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

I think it all boils down to the same thing. When you start selecting people for what they are instead of the best qualified applicant this will always happen.


30 posted on 05/15/2013 8:00:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: tet68; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Re: I’m not saying you’re alien, but you’re alien.

Hey-- I'll have you know Obama says I am a legal alien... as I was built in Mexico!

31 posted on 05/15/2013 8:00:58 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Pan_Yan
I created the term Trans-Ethnic. When I ask someone if we should accept “Transgendered” people and they agree, then I respond with “Trans-Ethnic” and tell them I am confused by my ethnicity; therefore, I demand justice.
32 posted on 05/15/2013 8:01:30 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: Darksheare
Exactly. It is amazing how the distastefulness of “whites only” scholarships seems to be obvious to most people, but the same people have no problem with or even praise “blacks only”, “Latinos only”, “women only” scholarships. My view is that all of these restrictive scholarships are offensive, but if coming from 100% private sources, should be legal.
33 posted on 05/15/2013 8:02:14 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
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To: cripplecreek
United Negro College Funding
Right on bro - because a mime is a terrible thing to waste.

34 posted on 05/15/2013 8:03:16 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What a barrel of horse sh*t.

There are countless scholarships and various other social and financial privileges reserved to Blacks only.


35 posted on 05/15/2013 8:03:39 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Gaffer; Jane Long

There are race specific scholarships. My friend just applied for a Hispanic scholarship. (I know that isn’t really a race) They also have Black only scholarships too.

It was clearly sarcasm by the first poster.


36 posted on 05/15/2013 8:03:39 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ConservativeStatement

IIRC correctly there was a case several years ago where the University of Maryland was sued because a large whites only endowment. The court ruled that it had to be open to everybody. I don’t agree. The answer to both of these should have been “thanks but no thanks” since the wishes of the people who set them up can’t be fulfilled. To me it should be the same as if they were alive today and came to the school with the idea.


37 posted on 05/15/2013 8:04:39 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Mr. K
It is simple really.

Any thing exclusively white is racist.

Not allowing something to be exclusively black is racist.

Hope that clears it up...

38 posted on 05/15/2013 8:05:41 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Also recall the hatrd for “Male only” colleges to teh point they went to court to force all male coleges to accept female applicants.
Yet the reverse, female only colleges, is perfectly a-ok.


39 posted on 05/15/2013 8:08:41 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: V_TWIN

A few days ago I posted an old 1866 political cartoon about THE FREEMAN’S BUREAU getting money from Congress to keep former slaves in idleness at the expense of the white taxpayer. It was brutal!

It was pulled almost immediately although the thread it was posted on was about how money today is flowing from taxpayers to Holder’s People.


40 posted on 05/15/2013 8:09:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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