“The title says: No Whites Need Apply For Bill Gates Scholarship, and that is, in fact, misleading. Whites need not apply for the Gates Millennium Scholarship, which was set up for a specific purpose, to reach a specific audience.”
The scholarship bars Whites. I don’t know why you’re trying to dance around this. I don’t care what other scholarships Gates has, this one is open to any Americans except White Americans.
“My white son or daughter could very well apply for another Gates scholarship; thus the headline is, in fact, misleading.”
No, the headline is not misleading. Had it said “Scholarships” instead of “Scholarship”....then yes....even though it would still be nit picking.
“As has been pointed out there are scholarships galore restricted to every race, ethnic group and religion in this country.”
Once again, I’ll ask you to point out a single “Whites only” scholarship. In the Bill Gates Millennium Fund we have an “Everyone except Whites” scholarship. So where is this balance you speak of?
“So you’re going to post that “Jews Need Not Apply to Knights of Columbus Scholarship?” or “Catholics Need Not Apply to B’nai B’rth Scholarship?” That’s really earth-shattering!”
The criteria for this scholarship is race, not religion so your analogy doesn’t hold water.
“On balance, if you were to balance ALL scholarships, you would find that blacks are restricted from many of them, simply because they do not belong to the particular ethnic group funding it.”
Please point out a Scholarship that is open to everyone EXCEPT Blacks specifically. Until you do, this argument doesn’t work. The GMS lists every race except for your own.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why you try to create this type of lop-sided world for your children.
“I have no problem whatsoever with a private scholarship dedicated to minorities.”
...and a scholarship dedicated to Whites that bars any other race? How do you feel about that? I have real doubt that you would be such an ardent supporter.
I actually agree that people should have the freedom to spend their money on any type of private scholarship they wish but that isn’t the world we live in. We all know Gates will never have a “Whites only” scholarship even though he has no problem with an “Anyone but Whites scholarship.
The Left must be made to live by their own rules (which of course they cant). Thats the only way the rules will change.
When the MSM runs misleading headlines and stories, FReepers are the first to jump on it. Your headline is as misleading as anything in the NYT/WaPo/Time/Newsweek, or any other leftwing rag. It’s more like the Globe. It says ‘Bill Gates Scholarship,’ not ‘Gates Millenium Scholarship.’ The latter would be an accurate headline.
Insisting on accuracy is not nit-picking. Words mean things. It is not true that whites are excluded from the more famous and far more prestigious, at least among scholars, Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
While you posted the restrictions for applicants, you did NOT mention that the Gates Millennium scholarship is administered by the United Negro College Fund which works in conjunction with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, American Indian Graduate Center Scholars, and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund. That information would certainly put the restrictions on applicants in its proper context.
It is increasingly clear that you framed the headline and snippet on restrictions exactly that way precisely to provoke prejudices. And you’ve done a good job of it.
Neither my children nor your children nor any other white child is deprived of a damned thing because of this scholarship fund. Not a damned thing.
If you want to see some ‘whites only’ scholarships, you can start here:
Pulaski Merit Scholarships - Polish
Abraham Fellowship - Jewish
Mitchell Scholarships - Irish
Irish American Scholarship Fund
UWM Polish-American Scholarship
Association of Italian American Charities Dr. Frank C. Marino Memorial Scholarship
Polish-American FREEDOM FOUNDATION Lane Kirkland Scholarship Program
Trans-Canada Alliance of German-Canadians - Scholarship Jewish War Veterans National Scholarship Program
Walter N. and Frances Hnatiuk Scholarship - Ukranian
The Kosciuszko Foundation’s Tuition Scholarships for Polish Americans
Marinelli Scholarship - Italian
Irish-American Scholars Program
Starkoff Fellowship- Jewish
Polish-American Congress Scholarship
Augustus Society Italian Scholarships
Kosciuszko Foundation Tuition Scholarship - Polish Deutscher Brüderliche Bund Scholarship - German
Petryshyn Memorial Scholarship - Ukranian
Norman R. Peterson Italian Scholarship
Ethel Marcus Memorial Fellowship - Jewish
Polish Scholarship Fund, Inc.
National Italian American Foundation Assunta Luchetti Martino Scholarship for International Studies
Anna and Charles Stockwitz Fund - Jewish
Charles and Louise Rosenbaum Scholarship Loan Fund - Jewish B’nai Brith Women of Greater Hartford Scholarship Massachusetts Federation of Polish Women’s Clubs Scholarships
Jewish Social Service Agency of Metropolitan Washington Levie Educational Fund Scholarship - Jewish
American Council for Polish Culture Scholarship Challenge Grant
George L. Graziado Fellowship for Business - Italian
Marcus and Theresa Levie Educational Fund - Jewish
The Roothbert Fund - Jewish
Polish American Club Scholarship
Jewish Foundation for Education of Women Scholarship
Jewish War Veterans of the USA - Scholarship
National Italian American Foundation George L. Graziado Fellowship for Business
National Italian American Foundation Merrill Lynch Scholarship