White kid returns black scholarship
A Riverside, California student garnered laughs from the audience when he got up on the stage to pick up his award. Jeffery Warren, a white student, had won the $1,000 scholarship sponsored by Riverside’s Martin Luther King Senior Citizens Club. Since the application only encouraged African-American students to apply, Warren seeing no restrictions applied for the scholarship and won.
The morning after the ceremony, Warren returned the money, which was then awarded to a black student. The group who awards the scholarship said that in the future the application would be worded more clearly.
Hopefully the new wording won’t just say that the scholarship is only for “African-Americans” or soon we’ll have some wise guy who is not black but was born in Africa going up on the stage to collect the scholarship award.
Sounds like a racist scholarship to me. Someone needs to look up “double standards”.
Could you imagine the backlash if there was a white only scholarship?
This scholarship redresses the historical and existing presence of overt and institutionalised racism that People of Colour face every single day of their lives. African-American kids are far less likely to get into college, or to be able to pay for it if they do get in, because American culture is inherently racist. Only offering money to African-American students is not racist, because racism towards White people does not exist. The word you are looking for is ‘discriminatory’, and this sort of discrimination is necessary to encourage and support African-American students. It would not be needed if the entire system didn’t favour White people from the bottom up.
Stop feeling put out because you are excluded from this kind of scholarship and therefore consider it a double standard (it isn’t): your privileged disgruntlement is a millionth of the discrimination, hate and abuse that People of Colour experience.
Rhiannon, what color is the sky in your world?
“Only offering money to African-American students is not racist, because racism towards White people does not exist.”
I stopped reading here…go get an education and learn what racism means.
Oh and people of color should not be capitalized
MLK loved his whores.
“Black Scholarship”? Is that an oxymoron?
There are, in effect, if not explicitly stated, hundreds, perhaps thousands of White-only scholarships, and there are many restricted in other ways (religion, location etc.) so that question is moot. If an organization is funding a scholarship to fund a specific type of student, placing restrictions on how that funding is spent is all part of a good capitalist approach. As far as racism goes, since any ‘ism’ implies oppression of another group, Rhiannon is quite correct, white racism does not exist in any western country, because people of color are not, as a group, in a position to oppress white people. Discrimination does exist, of course, but crying ‘unfair’ is a bit facile, when there are generations of disadvantage to redress, it is not enought, to redress the balance, to simply treat people as equal NOW, you need to go some way to providing all those things that they were denied for so long in addition to that equal treatment to start making things ‘fair’. Those of us in the privileged position by dint of our culture and ethnicity and culture need to recognize it, suck it up, and stop whining,
First scolarships you apply for that they push the most are for minorities, to say black people can’t get into college is bull hickey people that want to go to college do. Those that can’t afford it work their asses off then go. People that are too lazy to try complain about a racist system, and that’s people of all creeds and colors. The kid obviously did it to exploit their error not spark a debate. Advocates for MLK made a scholarship to benefit blacks, isn’t a scholarship for rowing the same thing for white kids?
If it’s so bad here, Rhiannon, you are certainly free to go back to Africa. African Americans have the same opportunities all Americans have… but they don’t have they baby daddy around to give them guidance.
When it comes to idiocy you win all the scholarships John.
My ohnest opinion, think that all of everyone are human. Disgusts me to think we are living in a of color. Ignorane if other people tried to understand other cultures or for that matter people who want to judge others. Might want to think before they judge a person.
Hmm. If he’d just faced Indian ancestry, he could have gone to Ivy League schools and run for Senate in Massachusetts. Bad choice, pal.
OMG the average black person in the US that still blames the white man you need to get over yourself.
I recently met an actual beautiful black African male the other day who came here for the American dream. He is highly educated, his English well I could listen to him for hours as people on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East learn the Queens English. They speak proper English oh how I love an accent… Okay back on the subject, He’s from Sudan he was talking about the American dream still being alive you just have to work hard for it, just like everyone else. I just happened to be working with a black guy at the time and we were all talking about the economy and Kareem said it’s really tough for a black man in todays world and the African guy said no you aren’t you are in America you can make your dreams come true you just have to work hard for them they are not handed to you. It was soooooooooo nice to hear him say that to a born and raised “African-American”. Kareem said I dunno man, the African guy said no man dream big work hard and you will have what we call the American Dream come true.
As long as you let that hold you down that you aren’t as good as the “white man”, you being those of you that have this mentality will be held back from becoming educated, landing a dream job or becoming a better person. If everyone let discrimination hold them back from succeeding their dreams they would be like every woe is me person on the planet who is miserable and blames everyone but themselves for there faults and the lack of a better life.
He shouldn’t have given the money back… He won it there was not race actually on the scholarship.