In the rush of applying for college scholarships this year, I have come across multitudes of "minority" scholarships that I am inelegible to apply for. As a straight-A student who has worked extremely hard for her grades, it is frustrating to be held back from opportunities that are given to others based on race.
I live in an area of my city that is primarily populated by Hispanic and African-American people, and while I have been been raised to treat them with the same respect that I would treat any other person, they seem to believe otherwise. In middle school, I recall frequently being called names referring to my white skin, whether jokingly or not. If I can't make discrimanatory comments towards them, then why do they feel that it's ok to exclude me from their circles? Yes, generations of white people before me treated African-Americans terribly, but that wasn't me. Why not treat people according to their current actions, not those of their ancestors?
I was venting about this one day to a friend who was having similar problems with finding scholarships that we were eligible for. She told me about a Caucasian senior that graduated last year that applied for a minority scholarship with the argument that in San Antonio, white people are the minority. She made such a good argument that the scholarship judges awarded her the money. However, this is only one case where discrimination was set aside. To protect the fourteenth amendment, equality needs to continue to spread not only to African-Americans and other minority groups, but to white people as well.
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I agree. There are all of these scholarships, internships, clubs, and other opportunities that are only open to people of one race. Caucasians are blamed for persecuting others, but in many cases its the other way around.
Like you said, you aren't the ones persecuting other races, you are simply missing out on opportunities because OTHER CAUCASIANS DID.
I don't persecute against people of color. Heck, when it comes to racism, my family hadn't even moved from Ireland to America before then as best as we can figure.
Its a somewhat skewed system. Especially when you think that every society has participated in slavery and the slave trade. The African slave trade was simply most recent.
I never thought about the fact that every society had slavery in some form or another. That makes the situation seem even more ridiculous.
The worst part about the whole system though is the fact that nobody is doing anything to change it. There continues to be the offering of those discriminatory scholarships. Hopefully someone will find a way to argue against them constitutionally sometime in the future; after all, they are offering advantages and freedoms to a certain group of citizens over another.
The discriminatory scholarships are for those that have been HISTORICALLY underrepresented. I'm sorry, but if you are young, white, male with all body parts attached, you are pretty much screwed as it comes to scholarships. It is essentially modern society trying to make up for all the crap that it did to people that did not belong to the young, white, and male category. My condolences.
I see what you mean, but the result is that the scale is tipped TOO far the other way, resulting yet again in inequality. The ultimate goal should be to try to achieve a balance somewhere in the middle, where all groups have the same opportunity to achieve the same goal, regardless of their environment and background. If scholarships are based on academic and personal merit as they claim to be, then they should be awarded solely because of effort and achievement.
You are totally right about reverse discrimination. I don't think scholarships, or anything for that matter, should be awarded on the basis of race. Both sides of my family were here before the American Revolution, and my mother's family owned slaves and a plantation. But, that does not make me liable for the treatment that they endured. Many people do not realize that the slave TRADE was just that...a trade. The kingdoms that existed in Africa during the exportation of slaves to the Americas actually captured the slaves that they sold and traded to the Europeans. Europeans almost never entered the interior of Africa, because they feared unknown diseases and it was highly uneconomical. Africans had been enslaving each other for hundreds of years, and had engaged in slave trading with Arab states before. So, the Europeans that imported and traded slaves cannot be blamed for "kidnapping" these Africans from their homes. The slaves being traded were already slaves in Africa, or the African kingdoms themselves had captured the slaves, and then sold and traded them to the Europeans. I always find it amusing that U.S. history textbooks "forget" to mention this little known or misconstrued fact.
This blog just proved how Caucasians may feel that they're the minorities. At first, I didn't know this either. Even if you say it and make people become aware of it, there'll be racist people who do not believe such claim. What can we do then to prove to them? We should spread the words that anybody can be a minority despite their skin colors.
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