What does everyone think about this?

[The_Tick]

http://news.yahoo.com/white-high-sch...opstories.html

Scholarship given by an MLK group, was awarded to a white student. The scholarship applications sais that it is for African American students.

Should restrictions like that be allowed to be put in place? I speak as a Caucasion male...but if a scholarship was liste for Caucasion students only we would have a lawsuit on our hands.

This kid gave it back...I wouldn't have.

[Pelado]

Was it Elizabeth Warren's son?

[Moliere]

http://news.yahoo.com/white-high-sch...opstories.html

Scholarship given by an MLK group, was awarded to a white student. The scholarship applications sais that it is for African American students.

Should restrictions like that be allowed to be put in place? I speak as a Caucasion male...but if a scholarship was liste for Caucasion students only we would have a lawsuit on our hands.

This kid gave it back...I wouldn't have.

I have no issues with a private scholarship being earmarked for a certain demographic. I'd love to some day sponsor an accounting scholarship for african americans attending BYU.

[Tim]

No issue at all from my perspective. The group can use whatever qualifications they want to use when giving their money away.

[edward777]

A while back I read about a kid winning an "African American" scholarship. Point was, he was being asked to give it back because his parents were from Egypt and he was Arab. Millions of people in Africa are not black -- most of these are Arabs and a small number are white South Africans.

[Paperback Writer]

My large company sent out an email stating that college students could apply not only for the company sponsored scholarships but also the UNCF scholarships and that the latter was open to all races. At first, I thought that UNCF was another name for a hispanic scholarship since those existed in the past. I wasn't aware that the group started to go by its initials rathar than the name I was familar with: United Negro College Fund (UNCF).

[Katy Lied]

[doctorcoug]

With the racial atrocities we imposed upon the AA race for centuries, I have no problem whatsoever in helping the advancement of their race, even if it means at the expense of a more qualified Caucasian. In reality, these "qualifications" can be statistically, or at least "clinically" insignificant.

[old_gregg]

With the racial atrocities we imposed upon the AA race for centuries, I have no problem whatsoever in helping the advancement of their race, even if it means at the expense of a more qualified Caucasian. In reality, these "qualifications" can be statistically, or at least "clinically" insignificant.

says the guy who has grad school admissions in his rearview mirror

[CardiacCoug]

A girl who attended my medical school on a minority scholarship had blond hair and blue eyes, freckles, very fair-skinned. She was from Oklahoma and apparently 1/8 Native American.

Another thing that raises some eyebrows is when kids from wealthy and politically connected families in Kenya, for example, come to the US to attend Ivy League colleges and then take graduate scholarships that are really intended for African Americans [descendents of slaves]. There were a couple of kids like that in my medical school too.

The idea of basing a scholarship on stated ethnicity is ridiculous and will become increasingly more nebulous and ridiculous in the future if you ask me. And really there is no way to define race -- race is not a genetic entity and anybody can claim anything they want about their race and how can it be disproven? But I think preference for kids based on socioeconomic background is great, especially for something like medical school or nursing school.

[SoCalCoug]

My step daughter has blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin, but she's 3/8 black (her birth father is 3/4 black - has a white grandmother). We put her down as both African-American and Caucasian on forms. She may have scholarships and stuff available to her even though she comes from a suburban, white family.