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Boston University Group Offers White Scholarships

 
 
Reply Tue 21 Nov, 2006 02:14 pm
I think they are trying to prove a good point. Too bad Jesse Jackson will simply label them racists and attack them for it.

BU group offers white scholarship - News
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NaterG
 
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Reply Tue 21 Nov, 2006 02:27 pm
@Brent cv,
Good for them. I think its a great thing. I, for one, support it.
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Drnaline
 
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Reply Tue 21 Nov, 2006 08:49 pm
@Brent cv,
Great idea, i had heard about the other a few years ago. And was for that as well. Turn about is fair play.
tumbleweed cv
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 11:05 am
@Drnaline,
Some people aren't so supportive.

ABC News: Whites Only Scholarship Creates Outrage

College Republicans like to stir up hornets nests. The latest scholarship was an idea copied from another Republican group.
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Drnaline
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 09:15 pm
@Brent cv,
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David Coreas, president of the Latino fraternity Phi Iota Alpha at BU.

Would that fraternity be race based?
What would Coreas think if there were white fraternity's?
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Coreas said he believes that racially based scholarships are necessary to level a very uneven academic playing field.


Just like Coreas believes that racial fraternity's are needed to do the same? Hipocrites, all of them.

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But for all the talk, there are still no takers for the scholarship. The application has been available online since Nov. 7, and so far not one student has filled it out.



This is a quote from the original first post link on the second page.
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RWU College Republicans adviser June Speakman said the organization started receiving complaints as soon as it released the scholarship. Despite protests, 15 students applied for the scholarship.

Some one is lieing.
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Drnaline
 
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Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2006 09:00 pm
@Brent cv,
Decent article on race card players. By Larry Elder

Townhall.com::Race-card player dishonors true victims::By Larry Elder

Tennie Pierce, a black 19-year veteran firefighter, recently won a $2.7 million settlement from the Los Angeles City Council.

Here's the story. Following a firehouse volleyball game, fellow firefighters laced Pierce's spaghetti with dog food to "humble" him. Pierce, who calls himself "the Big Dog," took a few bites, saw three co-conspirator firefighters -- two whites, one Latino -- laughing, and demanded to know why the chuckling.

Pierce, after learning that the firefighters -- in an undoubtedly good-natured way -- placed dog food in his spaghetti, called the prank "racist"! He hired a lawyer, found an "expert" witness who associated the consumption of dog food with "300 years" of discrimination against blacks, and successfully settled the case with the city.

Los Angeles Times reporter Sandy Banks, in an article about the award, failed to mention a few salient facts: that Pierce somehow managed to survive on the force for almost 20 years; that fellow firefighters referred to Pierce as a "turd stirrer" -- meaning he routinely pulled pranks on others; that the 6-foot 5-inch Pierce often referred to himself as "the Big Dog"; that the incident was apparently a reaction to a volleyball game won by Pierce during which he repeatedly urged to his teammates to "feed the Big Dog" by throwing the ball to him; and that, in the frat boy tradition of many firefighters, his co-workers likely fed him dog food as a display of affection, knowing that, after all, Pierce had pulled pranks on many others during his long career -- photos of which (including Pierce's involvement in the shaving of the pubic hairs of a fellow firefighter) later appeared on the Internet.
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markx15
 
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Reply Sat 25 Nov, 2006 07:45 pm
@Brent cv,
These so called "minority races" claim that they posses a right to these advantages because of the disadvantages suffered by their ancestors. That is not giving them and honest playing felid it is simply inverting the roles, the opressed now become the opressor, were it is an honorable act when a black man(or woman) is proud of his heritage, but it is racism when a caucasian man(or woman) does the same.
Today we see ourselves in a standoff, were white men and women must watch their tongues in order to avoid insulting a member of "another" race, but roles reversed no such "sugar coating" is necessary, and yet it is not racism, it is simply freedom of speach. Equality is not a synonem for revenge, why do we make it so? For that is what happens when someone recives any sort of differential treatment due to the abuses commited against ancesters who to many have no meaning other than for playing the "race card".
We are all humans and we should begin to act like it.
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Drnaline
 
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Reply Sun 26 Nov, 2006 09:15 am
@Brent cv,
Great post Mark. I especially like "Equality is not a synonym for revenge"
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oleo
 
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Reply Wed 29 Nov, 2006 03:24 pm
@Brent cv,
I agree with Bill O'Reilly on one thing:

"Affirmative Action is needed, but should be awarded on financial background and need only."
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