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Bill Gates. Gazillionaire entrepreneur who, along with two friends, opened first Starbucks in Seattle in 1971. There are now more than 15,000 stores world wide. Despite recent setbacks, last year revenue reached more than $ 9 billion. Soccer coach.
Posted on 02/04/2010 8:26:19 PM PST by DwFry
Bill Gates has made his scholarship fund off limits to white teenagers. The Gates Millennium Scholarship fund is financed by a $1 Billion endowment Bill Gates made in 1999. The fund explicitly denies eligibility to white students.
“Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they: Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;"
.......its aas if Im talking to a child.
Not a single one of those was a “Whites only” Scholarship fund....not one.
Again, for the life of me, I cant understand why you would advocate such a double standard that works against your own children.
Whites should stop buying his software crap then.
Who decides how black is black?
Enquiring minds want to know.
A similar situation where my business is located. We were courted into taking a grant from the state for money we really did not need. However; free money is always tempting.
One year later, we were required to fill out a questionnaire on who worked for us.
How many - black, Latino,Asian,other.......
I guess whites fall into other.....
Oh wait, whites cannot be discriminated against. IE. African farms.
Anyone looking for scholarships should really research because there are many many available by various groups and companies for all sorts of criteria from writing an essay to being at least 50% Greek or whatever.
While this is true, can you imagine the S*** storm that would cover him if he had said that any other race had been ineligible for his scholarships? What if he had specifically excluded Hispanics or blacks instead of white kids? The bottom line is it's more than ok to discriminate against whites in the United Socialist States of Amerika. It's expected.
“To be fair, there are scholarships only open to whites...”
Seriously? Which ones?
Monster. com It’s called WORKFORIT, Whitey. :>}
So “minorities” don’t have to have any intellectual abilities or talent or have done any hard work or studying, just have an “ethnic” skin color. A free pass for being “oppressed”. More “liberal” baloney.
That’s good to know. I was laboring under the false assumption that this was the only scholarship offered.
What about this being a United Negro College Fund- administered series of scholarships for itself, for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, for the American Indian Graduate Center Scholars and Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund do you not get ?
Did you follow the link and look at the scholarships? Or did you just follow your instinct to feel angry because some billionaire set up a fund to finance college educations for some minority kids? These are scholarships that take not one dime from any white kid.
If a bill were put forth in Congress to finance college educations for high-achieving, financially disadvantaged minority students with taxpayer dollars, the very same people b!tching on this thread would be screaming that it is a private matter that should not be funded by the government/taxpayers, but that wealthy individuals who want to see that result should step forward to fund it. Gates has done just that.
If you cannot understand the difference between Affirmative Action in college admissions or employment, or civil rights as to voting, housing, accommodations and employment as mandated by law, compared to an personal donation to an umbrella organization that oversees scholarships for minority students, there is little hope. In that case, you’d best stay away from any IQ comparisons.
“The bottom line its his money and he can give it to whom ever he wants.”
Yes, but the fact that he excludes whites tells us something, doesn’t it?
“there are scholarships only open to whites”
Do you have an example?
“Every time you don’t pirate MS software, you support racism.”
I just can’t do it any more. I can’t support that racist.
Seems to me that you are focused on a given argument, having to do with telling someone what to do with his money.
That’s not the argument I’m making. I also respect private property.
However, not all legal uses of private property are admirable. George Soros, for instance, is using his private property to try and destroy the US.
Yes, it’s Gates’ money, and he can use it as he likes. And if he uses it to further injustice or some other unfortunate consequence, people like me can criticize him for it.
http://www.gmsp.org/publicweb/aboutus.aspx
Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they:
• Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;
Everyone in America can get in on this scholarship except for white students
The black only and Hispanic only scholarships you mention should also be challenged in a court of law
But those scholarships doesn't rise the level of exclusionary racism that the Bill Gates scholarships do
It is plain racist to exclude only one racial group, whites
At least with your United Negro College Fund they are excluding whites, Asians, American Indians (some have a lot of black blood though and might qualify) Hispanics are also excluded unless you are Negro Hispanic I guess
How about someone who immigrates from Africa or Jamaica at age 14 with his parents?
This clown who immigrated to the big bad racist USA can get a Bill Gates college scholarship and my son can't?
This is one reason why would like to curtail 3rd world immigration
These people come over here and get all kinds of racial preferences and affirmative action
My people have been here 100 years..... so some black or Hispanic can immigrate here and get put ahead of me via these various racial spoils systems
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