Reply #16: It's an interesting issue. [View All]

[Cat Atomic]

While I'm skeptical about the motives of these college Republicans, I don't see why their whites-only scholarship is worse than any other race-specific award.

I grew up in a town that was mostly Mexican immigrants. All my friends were first generation Mexican immigrants, and our families were all lower middle class or downright poor. My own family fluctuated between the two.

Anyway, there were plenty of hispanic-only scolarships that my friends could apply for. I couldn't- and I wasn't in any better position than they were. You can talk about broad based discrimination and that sort of thing, but when you're a 17 year old kid, ou don't give half a crap about how good *most* whites have it in comparison to *most* hispanics. You just want to go to school.

I'm a big supporter of affirmative action, but I'm sure I would've accepted this scholarship when I was a college freshman.