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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
I agree completely. My family is comfortably upper middle class, but I have cousins who are middle class and watching them jump through hoops to afford college was painful. They really didn't qualify for financial aid but at the same time could not really afford college either. Insane amounts of loans were taken out, and right now I'm watching one cousin have to take out an additional loan (and an absurdly high one at that) to go to med school, on top of the loan she had to use to go to college.
So once again I can see why an already financially strained white male could take a look at all the scholarships available and be very frustrated that he could not even qualify for any of them. While every white person in America gets some amount of white privilege, very few are entitled to all of it. Social class is a HUGE factor in who gets what privileges. Nobody is trying to help the white son of a hippie or a dock worker or a kindergarten teacher succeed either.
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The thing is though this can be applied to all races. Just because you are black doesn't mean you can come with any GPA and get a scholarship just because its says "Be Black", or whatever ethnic group. That's the issue I always have when people bring up buzz phrases like, "White men being the minority" or "Affirmative Action" like there is this glut of 2.0 blacks taking away opportunities from all these white males that all have 4.0's.
Which is why I don't have an issue with the scholarship itself, we need more scholarships for those of us that aren't carrying 5.0's, 4.0's or heck 3.0's when graduating from high school. Just the justification he is coming up with (Immediately pointing his finger at the minority instead of embracing some of the tenets that "some" minority scholarships do have which is not a tremendously high standard to receive the money).
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