Hey-- I'll have you know Obama says I am a legal alien... 
as I was built in Mexico!
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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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?
If the courts rule this scholarship is illegal, will that mean all race based scholarships, including those restricted to minorities, are also illegal?
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.
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.”
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.
I think that most leftist courts would acknowledge the double standard and let it continue.
Alcoholic robots don’t have souls, thus no scholarships. :)
Are there blacks only and Hispanic only scholarships?
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.
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.
Hey-- I'll have you know Obama says I am a legal alien... as I was built in Mexico!
What a barrel of horse sh*t.
There are countless scholarships and various other social and financial privileges reserved to Blacks only.
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.
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.
Any thing exclusively white is racist.
Not allowing something to be exclusively black is racist.
Hope that clears it up...
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.
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.
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