White males only scholarship

[JaredXE]

Well it's nice to finally see someone step up to the plate. I am tired of being the shit on minority. I am not THE MAN! I don't run the world and I am not guaranteed an awesome life due to my penis or skin color. I am infact belittled, reviled, called racist, sexist and constantly have my intelligence called into question by the media. Sorry, but I think this is perfectly fair, and anybody who thinks otherwise is a racist.

See uppity race-baiters, does that feel good to be called that?

/rant

 

[PunkRex]

Also, NO MORE FUCKING SPORTS SCHOLARSHIPS. I'm tired of seeing utterly useless bullies and shitheads getting a free ride because the only thing they can do is throw a fucking ball farther than anyone else in the area, or hit something or someone.

Completely ignoring your raging, biased comment about "bullies and shitheads" that is clearly rooted in being thrown into lockers one too many times at school, this will never happen because:

1. Athletic scholarships are the only way some people have access to college at all. Only 2-3% of NCAA athletes actually go into professional sports, but all of them have the opportunity to take advantage of their college experience if they choose to study hard and not take a bullshit major

2. Collegiate sports are very large revenue generators for many schools. My undergrad school had an $80+ million athletic department, and 20 percent of its revenues were turned over to the school for academic and administrative use

Firstly, I was never shoved in a locker. Nor, for that matter, did any bully ever pick a fight with me. No, at 250 pounds and taller than most people I was not the boy that was fucked with. I never played sports, but that doesn't mean I wasn't strong or fast.

Secondly, I know how much collegiate sports makes. However, the only way that anyone should get a free ride to college is if they have very high grades and maybe volunteer work, or in needs based scholarships. Sports is taken as one of the most important aspects of college, but frankly sports are just there for fun. They have no academic value, nor any real value to the human race whatsoever except to have fun. Fun. That's it. Think about it - many people get free rides to college for being the best at something fun that has no other value. No, sports scholarships are not good at all, and never have been. Humanity as a whole could get so much farther if every single scholarship were based only on need or merit, because then the people that really deserve it - the incredibly hard-working kids - could get in and do more.

A career in sports is still a career. Its all some people have and there are many sportsman who sweat blood for what they do. I understand there are many who think their the shiznit and as a result misuse their talents, just look at all the footballes who party 24/7 but then look at all the others who help where they can via charity.

Your right in the idea that the hard workers should be the ones to get the opportunites but would you say that someone who gets in via something like a computer scolarship (or what ever they may be called) and then after graduating goes on to make games that it was watsed money as what their doing is pointless fun (not getting into weather you consider games art, I do but thats beside the point right now)?

 

[rancher of monsters]

While I'm skeptic about the deeper meanings, this being Texas and all, I've got no problem with this. As long as you're not pushing down another people there's nothing wrong with wanting to advance your own.

 

[Cheesus333]

In a better world, there wouldn't be gender-, race-, religion- or handicap-exclusive scholarships full stop. There would just be scholarships based on actual merit as a student and a person.

But this isn't a better world. So I guess that's fair play.

 

[Rafael Dera]

positive discrimination at its finest.

 

[wastedyouth89]

I agree with everyone else who supports this. Honestly, the fact of the matter is you can find a million scholarships for every other race and a bunch for females. There really is a specific scholarship for everyone except white males. And the fact that it requires them to need financial aid is good too, so the rich white kids aren't taking it away.

 

[Caligulove]

Equality is equality.

Everyone needs help when it comes to education these days. Simply being in the majority, racial wise, doesn't necessarily help you, individually, when it comes to simply paying for your education. There are a lot of scholarships with easy prerequisites designed to simply help with education costs, not to mention the GPA requirement so it's not like you just get money for being white- you still have to apply yourself.

If there is some issue about scholarships like this not being present for other races in the state, then lobby for them. Don't see any reason why this benefit shouldn't be given to everyone. Everyone here in or been to Uni can attest how stressful the money part of it can be.

 

[Thirsk]

This is stupid. Any scholarship granted on the background of the recipiant's so-called 'race' is stupid. Racism continue to exist because of shit like this. Scholarships should be granted on basis of one's social background, not race, dammit.

But then again, there aren't really scholerships where I come from, so yeah, I might be getting everything wrong.

 

[JoeThree]

I don't agree with this any more than I agree with scholarships awarded to only blacks or only women (or whatever), but if those things can exist then so can this. At the very least maybe it will draw some attention to the hypocrisy that goes largely unnoticed, then (God willing) we can all grow the hell up and stop putting so much damn emphasis on race and sex.

Agreed 100%

And for content: I went to college a poor white kid from a crappy part of New York with an A average. I now have more debt from college than any of my black friends from upper-middle class families who did worse than me academically in high school.

 

[crystalsnow]

Cool story bro.

Now look for the plethora of black males only scholarships around. You're making a big deal out of nothing.

 

[Thyunda]

Well, I'm gonna be honest. This whole idea of scholarships based on race is ridiculous. Aside from that, I'm siding with this particular scholarship simply because it's easier to make one than to try and bring the whole system down. It is not racist, and the claim that Caucasians control most of the wealth of the US is, while perhaps likely, completely irrelevant. How many of us can honestly say we've got a relative or a friend in control of vast amounts of wealth? How would their race affect your friendship? And most importantly, why are the competitors insisting that white people automatically help other white people? Race has never brought anyone together...seemingly it only pushes people apart.

 

[twistedheat15]

This is totally racist to ppl who are only 24.5% caucasian!

 

[Plurralbles]

I approve. I mean... if you say anything against it, I'd love to see legislatures take away your special ones too.

The only legitimate way to have special scholarships today is based on parents' income and educational history to help inner city kids get through college if they have what it takes. paying someone as if being Black was a disability is insane.

 

[jawakiller]

I almost didn't get into the school i'm currently attending because I'm a white, heterosexual male. Its the same thing with employment. If me and a homosexual woman of Chinese descent are both equally qualified for a position, the company has to give the job to the minority... wtf? Favoring one race (or gender) over another for a job (or scholarship) is racism. Yes its their money but does the government have to make a law requiring a company to hire X amount of minorities?

 

[Ian Caronia]

Well I'm pleasantly surprised, and I was wrong. I expected a bunch of knee-jerk responses that this was attention whoring, and that white males are just butthurt that they are no longer the majority in Texas and they should stfu because they still control most of the wealth in this country. That's a common sentiment of many opposed to this "whites-only" scholarship. Personally, I don't agree with that criticism, and people are free to give private scholarships for whatever reason they want.

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes we're reminded that not everyone is drenched in ignorance and chugging down buckets of pure stupid. I'm surprised too. Pleasantly surprised.

 

[tawmus]

There are scholarships out there for just about anything. If you look hard enough and apply to any relevant scholarships you can get a lot of financial help. By my senior year of college I had only to pay 4000 odd dollars of a 28,000 tuition, just by applying for every scholarship I could find. Even 250-500 dollar ones add up if you get enough of them. I had a friend who was like 1/16th cherokee(his maternal grandma was 1/4 and my math might be off) and got a sizable amount of money for school.

Go to your financial aid office or registrar and ask if they have information on scholarships.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Chauvinism and racism is fashionable again, apparently.

 

[Exterminas]

This is absolutely justified.
At our university it is downright impossible to see some money unless you are:
-father/mother of a child
-a religious zeal
-member of a political party
-a women

This is not an american problem, it happens allover in the western world. (I live in europe) The only scholarships I could possibly apply for are the ones that requirre heavy social commitment like to volunteer for some social activitiy in your free time (and write As only in the meantime) The problem with that is that absoluty noone who writes As on university and keeps that level, is able to be jesus in his "free time" everyone who is in that scholarship did the volunteer work before the time at the university and used the connections to these organisations to get it.

I'm not saying that they cheated or that women don't deserve a schlarship. I am saying that to study costs the same amount of money for everyone and just because giving money to studying single-mothers sounds good on paper that doens't mean that white-single-men shouldn't get some too.

 

[rutger5000]

I think they are victimizing themselves a bit here. I wouldn't know enough about getting scholarships. But I'm friends with a couple of white American males, and they don't seem to have a problem with getting the scholarships they need. From one friend I know that he pays over 90% of his study fees with scholarships.