Signed,

The Girl STILL paying off her student loans… years LATER!

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You are probably one of those west indians with the superior attitude to Black Americans, yet you want to benefit from their civil rights and privileges and have an attitude while doing it.

And I say that as a half west indian.

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There is no box to tick that says : Black but not of African American descent.

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Ya’ll gonna make me have to whip out Tim Wise’s wise words of research:

“According to a national study by the General Accounting Office, less than four percent of scholarship money in the U.S. is represented by awards that consider race as a factor at all, while only 0.25 percent (one quarter of one percent) of all undergrad scholarship dollars come from awards that are restricted to persons of color alone (1). In other words, whites are fully capable of competing for and receiving any of the other monies — roughly 99.75 percent of all scholarship funds out there for college. ”

“it is also false that large numbers of students of color receive the benefits of race-based scholarships. In truth, only 3.5 percent of college students of color receive any scholarship even partly based on race, suggesting that such programs remain a pathetically small piece of the financial aid picture (2)”

“Despite the claim that race-based scholarships for people of color amount to a double-standard (since scholarships for folks of color are considered legitimate, but white scholarships aren’t), in truth, the standard is simple, straightforward and singular: persons belonging to groups that have been systematically marginalized should have opportunities targeted to them so as to allow for the development of their full potential, which otherwise might be restricted. Special efforts to provide access and opportunity to such persons should be made, not because they are black, per se, or Latino, or whatever, but because to be a person of color has meant something in this country, and continues to mean something, in terms of one’s access to full and equal opportunity.”

“Additionally, to suggest that race-based scholarships are some unique and illegitimate break with an otherwise meritocratic system is preposterous. Fact is, there are plenty of scholarships that have nothing to do with merit per se, but about which conservatives say nothing: scholarships for people who are left-handed, or kids whose parents sell Tupperware, or the children of horse-breeders, or descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, among many thousands of such awards (3). Apparently, it’s OK to ensure opportunity for members of these groups, despite the fact that none of them have faced systemic oppression before, but it’s the height of immorality to do the same for students of color, who have indeed faced explicitly racial obstacles in their lives.”

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Quotes taken from “A Bad Year for White Whine: College Scholarships and the Cult of Caucasian Victimhood” and “A Paricularly Cheap White Whine: Racism, Scholarships, and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood”.

http://www.timwise.org/2011/03/a-bad-year-for-white-whine-college-scholarships-and-the-cult-of-caucasian-victimhood/

http://www.timwise.org/2006/12/a-particularly-cheap-white-whine-racism-scholarships-and-the-manufacturing-of-white-victimhood/

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