Texas group launches scholarship exclusively for white males

[g33kski11z]

Honestly, its about time. Not to sound racist or anything, but I'm white and grew up poor. My parents didn't have money to send me to college. As a 'white' kid I was never eligible for most of the special types of loans/grants/scholarships that minority's are. I'm glad to see one established for people in my (former) situation.

link --> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/campus-overload/2011/02/texas_non-profit_launches_new.html

.. thoughts...??

 

[DanP]

Honestly, its about time. Not to sound racist or anything, but I'm white and grew up poor. My parents didn't have money to send me to college. As a 'white' kid I was never eligible for most of the special types of loans/grants/scholarships that minority's are. I'm glad to see one established for people in my (former) situation.

link --> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/campus-overload/2011/02/texas_non-profit_launches_new.html

.. thoughts...??

If it's a private organization, and there is 0 public money in it, I see no issue with it. They could make a scholarship for dogs only, martians or reformed prostitutes, I couldn't care less.

Racism is a problem in our society, but no being, god or government should have the power to tell man how to spend his hard money or to whom they are allowed to pass them or not.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

aren't there plenty of scholarships where you must be a certain minority?

 

[DanP]

aren't there plenty of scholarships where you must be a certain minority?

There are a lot of those. Again, no issue with those if they are from private money.

 

[g33kski11z]

The reason I posted this was because I've never heard of a 'white only' type scholarship. Granted you only need to be 25% white, but still. Is there any other (private or public) scholarship like that?

 

[Pengwuino]

As a person who is half Mexican, I think this is a great thing. Just because you're white doesn't mean you can't be poor. This is the first I've heard of such a scholarship. Scholarships should be about helping people that are suited for college to pay for college that otherwise wouldn't be able to.

The only thing I've ever seen that comes close to this was a grant/fellowship I saw that was specifically for certain nationals of a country attending the school. I think you were eligible if you were from some Eastern Europe nation... and since they're predominantly "white", you could kinda misconstrue that to be a scholarship for white people but that's a looooooooong shot.