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February 10, 2010 3:26 PM
Race Relations Scholarships for White People
An Oregon minority advocacy group announced that it now plans to offer diversity scholarships to white students. According to a piece by Janie Har at The Oregonian:
The stipends will be small, perhaps no more than $2,000 over five years, for students to study race relations in college. The idea is to get students to translate what they learn in school into action in life.
The Oregon League of Minority Voters has not figured out details for the awards, to be issued this spring, said Promise King, executive director of the statewide nonprofit organization. But recipients must live in Oregon. And they can’t be of Asian, African, Latino or Native descent.
“The minorities we have in Oregon are not in a position to effect changes,” King said. “The ones in position to effect changes are white.”
While individual schools do occasionally give diversity scholarships to white students, the OLMV plan appears to be the first time a specifically minority association has decided to offer scholarship money to non-minorities.
About 20 percent of Oregon’s population is made up of ethnic minorities.
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problemwithcaring on February 10, 2010 6:09 PM:
'"The minorities we have in Oregon are not in a position to effect changes," King said. "The ones in position to effect changes are white."'
Nigerians are sooooooo weird. Well, I mean, folks who aren't born in America, I guess, see race in really stark ways. Ways that aren't necessarily applicable to America.
This guy - King - is a Nigerian, and he doesn't like going to all these diversity meetings and seeing sooooooo many coloreds. haha! OK. So you want to use your scholarship money to bribe prospective scholars to feign interest in diversity.
Most people would rather use scholarship money to make more accessible to scholars a field of study tha was - for whatever reason - formerly inaccessible to them. White people aren't NOT majoring in race and ethnicity because they don't get $500 in scholarship money. So this is bribery and it may work. I doubt it. More power to your dumb ass.
But what gets me is the idea that a minority rights groups could champion ANY program that would explicitly exclude minorities, let alone a program specifically tied to diversity advocacy. That is the most patently ridiculous, self-hating policy I have seen in a long time.
Best of luck, Oregon minority freedom fighters. You will get that one white friend some day!