On the why don't white people get the same treatment for scholarships? And why does the BSU exist - the WSU would probably be thought of as racist?"
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by El Monsignor Pigglet
i agree with the white supremicist tag on the A.C.C. (American Caucasion Club) - and what's more, it would probably be pretty accurate. to think that it wouldn't be is to ignore the history of race relations for the past several hundred years. i'm not a white apologist, by a long shot, but the facts are that predominantly white europeans took over the world and put everyone in chains? why? because they could, and that's what you did back in the day. they were in the right place and the right time to do globally. its a natural thing that the group that hasn't been oppressed for hundreds of years probably won't need a club to establish their identity and feelings of equality, the non-tradionally dominant groups might. it doesn't really bother me.
|
ie. who do you think would actually show up for a meeting of the White Students Union?
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by soccerc
Or how about the fact that every member of said group is probably at the school on a scholarship that isn't merit based?
|
Paint it how you will, that statement smacks of racism. "Shit, he was just making a point..." Oh, well ok then. As long as a point was being made, we'll just characterize all blacks in college as undeserving of the opportunity. Is anecdotal evidence ok? Why not, our standards are so high; the saludatorian at my high school was a black female, as I believe was the 5th person in our class. Both got academic scholarships to go to school.
As far as race-based scholarships go, I think we're approaching a point where economic situation of the family is a more accurate way to distribute college funds. However, to think that in a couple of generation this whole race issue in America is going to be magically cleared up is crazy. No question about it - race-based scholarships are definately discriminatory; however, it used to make
a lot of sense to tie need-based scholarships to race, and now (given generational poverty) its still pretty strongly correlated.