Anyone looking for a schlorship?

[smokeyj]

How is the race you are born into earned?

You are really one sided, just because you are black doesn't mean you get the scholarship. There are other requirements such as gpa, sat, or act and even an essay. I am not sure of all the requirements, but the fact that the white student was rewarded the scholarship proves that they are looking at more than race. So by meeting their guidelines or requirements the scholarship is earned.

You really want to compare a scholarship given to engineering major by an engineers professional society to this? This is right up there with your argument that discrimination leads to equality.

Yes I do. Please explain what is the difference? Is this not discrimination between majors? Also, I never said discrimination leads to equality, that is how you interpreted it. If someone feels that a majority of a race has better opportunities than another race and wants to assist in helping his race attain more, why do you care. As I said in my first post about the article I read, 74% of scholarships went to white students. Meaning 26% is shared between Hispanic, Black and Asian students. Maybe they didn't earn it, but if they didn't have scholarships for certain groups, that 26% would be much lower. Which in the long run Would lead to more uneducated minorities not being able to attain a professional or executive position. This is a short synopsis of what I mean by (The MLK scholarship was created to help his people so that equality may be possible.). Do you think that would be better than minorities having their own scholarship.

You obviously lost all context in what my comment was about.

I may have and apologize if I did. I will go back and read again because this part wasn't aimed at you I don't think.

I sent that article to 2 black guys I routinely talk about racial issues with. Both said the same thing, that it was BS and it went against everything MLK ever stood for.

Now I agree with this in certain aspects. Concerning the white student winning and being awarded the scholarship, I believe as long as everything checked out his application and all requirements were met he should get to keep it because that was the scholarships fault. If it says directly you must be black and that was a requirement then he should have to return it.

You really want to get a discussion going on race. Bring up the culture of violence and predatory behavior that exists within the black community, specifically the urban black community.

I am not the one to have this discussion with because I don't know anything about what goes on in the urban black community but what I hear and see second hand. Now if you are well versed in this subject matter I am pretty sure there are many people on here who will indulge you in this discussion.