Scholarship created to honor 2 nuns killed in Mississippi

WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | September 3, 2016 5:15 pm | AP

[COBOL2Java]

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi University for Women is creating a scholarship to honor two slain nuns who worked as nurse practitioners in one of the poorest parts of the nation.

The Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill Graduate Nursing Scholarship will be given to a graduate nursing student who works in an underserved area or does charitable work.

[2banana]

Whites only can apply?

That would be racist.

Black only MLK scholarships are good though...

[Mrs. Don-o]

They 2ban, this scholarship doesn't say anything about race.

Is there some reason you want to interject a manufactured racial issue here?

[PghBaldy]

Other than another black savagely murders whites? Nothing racial there.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Listen, friend: the bloody felon was not a representative of his color or creed, his race, religion, or region.

To turn this nurses' scholarship, of all things, into a race issue, is reprehensible. The murdered sisters --- who loved their neighbors, and were loved by them --- would rise up to admonish you.

[Rockpile]

I believe you are deluding yourself to think that this was not a racist
hate crime murder attack.

I think this filthy rodent deliberately targeted these two elderly White
women nuns.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I didn't say one single word about this depraved murderer's motivation.

I said the scholarship in honor of the nuns was not linked to "race" as a qualification.

Sheesh. Don't people read?

[Rockpile]

I said nothing about the scholarship.

Re-read the first line of your post #5.

[Mrs. Don-o]

If you will review this thread, the charge of "racism" was made about the scholarship. I jumped in to point out that there is no racial qualification for the scholarship.

Later, I said (and this is what you were alluding to):

"Listen, friend: the bloody felon was not a representative of his color or creed, his race, religion, or region."

That does not say one word about his "motivation," which is at this point unknown. For all we know, he realized that these two nuns were nurse-practitioners who handed out insulin and other meds, and he was hoping to score some opioids. That's why medical providers usually get their places broken into.

I'd be very skeptical of any notion that this depraved murderer would not have broken in if the nuns were brown or black.

To say that the murderer did not "represent" a race is absolutely true. Those in the neighborhood who loved the sisters, are black. Who "represents" these black people? The murderer? No way.