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[Fox]

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[Leon]

How about just plain stupid? The reason the minority scholarships exist is that there is past, and present discrimination, towards them and it helps level the playing field. While there is reason to believe that in the future that this might not be so, and it has decreased, it's still important when the proportions of minority groups living in poverty is still higher than the national average. Most scholarships are race blind so it's not like there is a huge void to fill here. Also, the name is dumb, Former Majority Association for Equality, former, yeah right. The amount of the award, $500, is almost negligible in terms of affording college. This is just a bunch of people trying to make some kind of point and spending an easy $500 to feel self righteous.

[Ya-ta Boy]

This reminds me of that all-white basketball league planned for last year. Remember that one?

Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league," the statement said.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2010/01/19/nba_563760.shtml

Out-numbered by women in college, bossed around by wives at home, can't lynch darkies anymore, can't beat up the fags, women and gays on the battlefield; life was a lot easier for white men back in the old days when we could just assume we were superior and had the power of the state to enforce it.

I feel a little bit sorry for the white men that can't compete in a fairer society. I don't entirely blame them for feeling like victims. It's easier to play the victim than to actually work harder.

[stilicho25]

I think its reasonable. It is clear to me that a white underclass is developing pretty quickly. It seems like it is formerly working class whites in rural areas hit hard by meth and the continuing financial crises. Lots of single moms, crappy schools, very few employment opportunities, drugs, all the elements necessary to produce badly adjusted people on a large scale.

Yata, are you completely unable to talk about anything without resorting to nasty ad-homs or boilerplate rhetoric? lynching? wife beating? Seriously, why not throw a few Hitler quips in there as well?

[recessiontime]

minority scholarships are deficient, namely because they don't take into account how much money the ethnic minority has. There might be an African American scholarship that goes toward a wealthy son of African Americans instead of the truly disadvantaged poverty stricken black person. Maybe if these things targeted individuals, not groups, we might see a better outcome.

[rambler]

One vote for really stupid. Except on the part of the dude who collected the $500.

[Kuros]

[travel zen]

Impressive posts.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[soupsandwich]

Hey.....as long as it is nothing personal, why not?

[visitorq]

[stilicho25]

Economic conditions aren't all that great, and states are making federalist noises. I don't see that as the same thing as lynching, beating your wife and taking us back to the middle ages.

As for questioning civil rights, it really depends on what in particular they are critical of. If its the moral goals I would say they were neanderthals. If its the execution of those moral goes into practical policy they would have a point. The underclass is still huge and predominantly minority. If policies do not have the effect desired, then change the policy.

[soupsandwich]

[sirius black]

I'd like to see more money based solely on need. This would cover some minorities (the poorer minorities) and disadantaged whites.

[Hugo85]

I don't see the problem.

There are scholarships with academic-based criteria, there are those with need-based criteria and there's ethnic-based scholarship. At least this one is ethnic and need based. As some other poster said, ethnic+academic-based scholarships are pure fail.