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of course the white male suffers from discrimination.
another story, as anecdotal as it may be: my dad accidently checked "native american" on his SATs in high school... scholarship offers nearly broke their mailbox. once those schools found out he was just another white kid... nothing.
mml, i'm glad your scholarship group gives them out on merit alone... but just because that is so doesn't change the fact that many state universities and government programs do not operate with that same criteria.
when and where does this stop? i don't think the government should be in the business of correcting perceived social injustice by showing favoritism. if the impetus for social change comes from laws imposed on people rather than individual choice... then we are no closer to racial/gender/sexual preference/religious harmony than before.
why aren't these loan/scholarship/employment decisions based on income rather than race? if the argument is that social injustice has caused a minority to be economically disadvantaged... then the minority will receive a greater portion of the assistance by virtue of their disadvantage. when that supposed injustice is righted by a scale based on economic status... the minority will no longer be as dependent on such programs with the added benefit of eliminating racial tension from the equation.
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