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Speedofsand

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Jun 13, 2012 6:39 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/white-high-schooler-returns-scholarship-intended-black-students-223410181--abc-news-topstories.html

Etta Brown, the chairwoman of the MLK Senior Citizens Club's scholarships committee, said she was shocked when she realized the winner of her group's scholarship was a white student. Since the scholarship was created in 2005, it had never been awarded to a non-black student.

Racism will never die because of this.
Jun 13, 2012 6:39am
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Belly35

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Jun 13, 2012 7:10 AM
Thanks this reminds me to make sure the Belly Family scholarship goes only to White CCW members :laugh:
Jun 13, 2012 7:10am
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Scarlet_Buckeye

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Jun 13, 2012 7:34 AM
Think of the public outcry if a "black" student were to be denied a historical "white" scholarship. We would never hear the end of it. "Oh all the injustice."

I realize the [white] kid was not denied the scholarship, but the fact that the pressure was so strong that he had to feel compelled enough to return it shows that the situation was handled wrongly.
Jun 13, 2012 7:34am
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Jun 13, 2012 8:00 AM
Really?

Jun 13, 2012 8:00am
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password

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Jun 13, 2012 8:10 AM
It will all blow over. Whites never complain about getting shafted by blacks, they just sit back and take it, because they don't want to be accused of being racist.
Jun 13, 2012 8:10am
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4cards

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Jun 13, 2012 8:45 AM
...mighty white of this kid to give the scholarship back!

Jun 13, 2012 8:45am
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Rotinaj

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Jun 13, 2012 9:11 AM
Kill whitey!!!!!
Jun 13, 2012 9:11am
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sleeper

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Jun 13, 2012 9:37 AM
White people are the worst. They should not be proud of their skin color as that is racist.
Jun 13, 2012 9:37am
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fan_from_texas

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Jun 13, 2012 10:02 AM
I won a "black" scholarship in undergrad. I kept it. It was a little awkward, but whatever.
Jun 13, 2012 10:02am
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Commander of Awesome

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Jun 13, 2012 10:04 AM
Went to school with a kid who was there on an African American Scholarship, a white jew from Solon. His mom was born in Egypt (she's also a white american parents in the military or something perhaps?). He kept it as well.
Jun 13, 2012 10:04am
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Sonofanump

Jun 13, 2012 10:20 AM
Commander of Awesome;1198249 wrote:Went to school with a kid who was there on an African America Scholarship, a white jew from Solon. His mom was born in Egypt (she's also a white american parents in the military or something perhaps?). He kept it as well.
Props to him, I guess it was not a Sudan American or Nigeria American scholarship, Egypt qualifies as part of Africa.
Jun 13, 2012 10:20am
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Jun 13, 2012 11:54 AM
Speedofsand;1198080 wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/white-high-schooler-returns-scholarship-intended-black-students-223410181--abc-news-topstories.html

Etta Brown, the chairwoman of the MLK Senior Citizens Club's scholarships committee, said she was shocked when she realized the winner of her group's scholarship was a white student. Since the scholarship was created in 2005, it had never been awarded to a non-black student.

Racism will never die because of this.
So true in this day and age things of this nature are no longer necessary. They do more harm than good. The lady should be embarassed of herself if the kid was awarded the scholarship there shouldn't have been any pressure for him to return it. Black people wonder why they have the persona of being cry babies as well as having a you owe me mentality.
Jun 13, 2012 11:54am
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rmolin73

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Jun 13, 2012 11:59 AM
fan_from_texas;1198246 wrote:I won a "black" scholarship in undergrad. I kept it. It was a little awkward, but whatever.
I'm a little different. I felt insulted when my hs guidance counselor mentioned a "black", scholarship I felt that they were for the kids with low gpa's and I had already received money because of my high gpa.
Jun 13, 2012 11:59am
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fan_from_texas

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Jun 13, 2012 12:05 PM
rmolin73;1198436 wrote:I'm a little different. I felt insulted when my hs guidance counselor mentioned a "black", scholarship I felt that they were for the kids with low gpa's and I had already received money because of my high gpa.
My story--and I've shared it before--is that when I went to school in Texas, the 5th Circuit temporarily outlawed affirmative action programs. My school participated in a scholarship program for minorities, but was, as a result of the court ruling, compelled to admit some token white people to the program. I got in because I was white and poor, while the other white guy was gay, so we were close enough to minorities, I guess.

We went to the national convention, and there were several hundred attendees. We were the only two white people in the entire place. The keynote address was on the evils of the court system and how whites were trying to infiltrate their program. It was awkward, to say the least. But whatever.
Jun 13, 2012 12:05pm
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rmolin73

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Jun 13, 2012 12:10 PM
FFT that's why I have an issue with the relevance of these minority scholarships. A poor white male doesn't have a chance today.
Jun 13, 2012 12:10pm
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fan_from_texas

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Jun 13, 2012 12:24 PM
rmolin73;1198449 wrote:FFT that's why I have an issue with the relevance of these minority scholarships. A poor white male doesn't have a chance today.
To be clear, I'm generally fine with affirmative action to pursue limited diversity goals, though I'd prefer if it were based on socioeconomic status rather than simply race. And if we're going to pursue diversity, there are many types of diversity that need to be considered. E.g., at my undergrad and law school, we were diverse in that we had rich whites from the suburbs who went to private schools, rich blacks from the suburbs who went to private schools, rich hispanics from the suburbs who went to private schools, and rich Asians from the suburbs who went to private schools.

It seems to me that building a well-rounded class with people from farm country, from poor communities, from flyover states, from religious fundamentalist backgrounds, etc. would make the class more diverse than what our typical AA policies get. Just my 2c.
Jun 13, 2012 12:24pm
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rmolin73

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Jun 13, 2012 12:29 PM
I agree
Jun 13, 2012 12:29pm
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raiderbuck

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Jun 14, 2012 12:16 AM
To be clear...the committee wasn't going to ask for t back. The kid and his family did it on their own merit.
Jun 14, 2012 12:16am
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Jun 14, 2012 12:27 AM
fan_from_texas;1198464 wrote:To be clear, I'm generally fine with affirmative action to pursue limited diversity goals, though I'd prefer if it were based on socioeconomic status rather than simply race. And if we're going to pursue diversity, there are many types of diversity that need to be considered. E.g., at my undergrad and law school, we were diverse in that we had rich whites from the suburbs who went to private schools, rich blacks from the suburbs who went to private schools, rich hispanics from the suburbs who went to private schools, and rich Asians from the suburbs who went to private schools.

It seems to me that building a well-rounded class with people from farm country, from poor communities, from flyover states, from religious fundamentalist backgrounds, etc. would make the class more diverse than what our typical AA policies get. Just my 2c.
Not trying to bring the debate from the other thread here but why would that be important as a group to include?
Jun 14, 2012 12:27am
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Jun 14, 2012 8:18 AM
ccrunner609;1198134 wrote:i would of kept it just to see what happened. Good way to get some press and maybe start a political career
Teach your kids that "would of kept it" is not proper English so that they may someday quailfy for their own black scholarships.
Jun 14, 2012 8:18am