Reply With QuoteI wonder if he applied for any "whites only" scholarships? I think it's stupid that today anyone still awards scolarships based on skin color.
White Student Returns $1,000 Scholarship Intended For Black Students
SourceRIVERSIDE (CBS) — A 17-year-old student at King High School in Riverside has returned a $1,000 scholarship intended for black students because he is white.
Jeffrey Warren and his father Rod returned the scholarship from the Martin Luther King Senior Citizens Club the night the teen was announced as the winner of the African-American student scholarship, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
Jeffrey, who has a 4.25 cumulative grade-point average, applied for 27 scholarships and won three others in addition to the award from the Martin Luther King Senior Citizens Club, which only specified that African Americans were “encouraged to apply,” the newspaper reported. School counselors were informed that the scholarship was for black students.
The club intends to change the language on next year’s application to clarify who is eligible, according to the Press-Enterprise.
The returned scholarship was later awarded to an African-American girl at King High School.
Jeffrey plans to take his scholarships – two for $2,000 and another for $500 – to San Diego State University in the fall, where he will double major in English and business, the paper reported.
I wonder if he applied for any "whites only" scholarships? I think it's stupid that today anyone still awards scolarships based on skin color.
Does anyone award a scholarship simply for being white?
There have been such scholarships offered. But they are rare because they are primarily about making a statement rather than helping somebody got to university.Originally Posted by Rattfink
That would be racist
Alabama State in 1999 according to CNN raised a few eye brows with their scholarship.
"When you have a 14th Amendment that guarantees equal protection for everybody, you can't have government-sponsored policies of exclusion," said Matt Glavin, head of the foundation.
Such good potential, all set for failureto San Diego State University in the fall, where he will double major in English and business, the paper reported.
I'm glad that you can project your own failings in life onto others. It's the first step towards recovery.
When I was in Hong Kong, there are groups that aren't called 'white groups', they're called expats or expatriates to be more politically correct.
Is it racist to have these black scholarships? ... no, but I wonder why there is a need for them. Whoever shelled out the money for that scholarship must have good reason. I know black people in my medical school who are excellent students who will be top notch doctors. If at the convocation there was a blacks only award for academic excellence, that would have been really awkward.
It is not racist and there was or is a reason for it. It has to do with disproportionate representation in higher ed. Kids coming from better homes, better neighborhood, better school systems don't have a problem going to college. The minds have equal capacity but it is the environment that they are raised in, it can aid or inhibit a person from going to college.
There is a scholarship of any kid, who is the first person/first generation in their family to go to college. A kid who has parents or family who have been to college can not get that scholarship. Opportunity is not always equal.
That knowledge is important and one should not casually dismiss it.
There is an article on the topic of scholarship distribution. It is a nice read. Just google the following title ''The Distribution of Grants and Scholarships by Race''.
Thanks for your helpful input Google. There are pages upon pages and PDF's of results for such a search request.
Here is where I found it http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/2...holarships.pdf
Thanks, that is a good read.
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