Texas Tech Student Announces 'United White Persons College Fund'

CrimsonTide4 · #1 03-03-2003, 04:44 PM

Texas Tech Student Announces 'United White Persons College Fund'

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Matthew Coday wants to be sued, or at least to provoke debate on his campus about racial preferences at colleges. The Texas Tech senior loudly announced this month a new scholarship, which he is calling "The United White Persons College Fund."

Mr. Coday, who is white, said his effort, which he said would give a $2,000 scholarship to one student each year, is a jab at the United Negro College Fund, which he argued discriminates against white students.

Though he acknowledged that the UNCF does not exclude members of any group from its scholarships, he said that in practice the group is exclusive, since it supports historically black colleges. (While all of the private colleges that are members of UNCF are historically black, none bar white students and many have some white students enrolled.)

Mr. Coday plans to mirror his scholarship program on the policies of the United Negro College Fund's programs: He said that no student would be excluded based on race, but that his mission was to support members of a certain group -- in this case, white students.

"If you can have an organization that can serve to better your racial group," he said, "then so can we."

"I would just dare anyone to take me to court and try to have our organization declared discriminatory and therefore unconstitutional," he said. Such a finding, he said, would call into question the legality of other groups as well. "I would love to see organizations like the United Negro College Fund disbanded."

Mr. Coday said he has raised more than $1,000 so far for his scholarship fund, mainly from friends, relatives, and others who have heard of his efforts in recent local news reports. He said he hopes to raise at least $50,000 by this fall, when the first scholarship will be awarded. "There were a lot of scholarships I didn't qualify for because I wasn't Hispanic or because I wasn't black," he added.

He said he will refuse to take any money from white supremacist groups, and that he does not consider himself a racist.

"That's like saying, Isn't the United Negro College Fund black
supremacist?" he said.

So far, Mr. Coday said, his efforts have not sparked much debate on the campus. "I expect the black student organizations to march against me," he said, "There's a firestorm that's about to erupt."

The president of the Black Student Association on the campus, Martin Lee Dorsey II, said his group has not yet had time to decide whether and how to respond to the new fund, though the group will discuss a possible response at a meeting next week.

But Mr. Dorsey finds the spirit of the scholarship troubling.

"There are 21,000 white students here and only 818 black students," he said. "He's being discriminated against? I don't think so. I mean, come on."

"You can get scholarships for just about anything these days," added Mr. Dorsey. "I don't think the United Negro College Fund is a discriminatory scholarship. ... He's just trying to do this trying to get attention."

Leaders of the United Negro College Fund could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Honeykiss1974 · #2 03-03-2003, 04:48 PM

Whatever floats his misguided boat?

EDITTED:

No, bump that! I swear WE can't have a sliver of cake because greedy arse mofo like him continue to want it all!! I mean REALLY!!

I hope someone told BOO BOO the TEXAS FOOL that not EVERY black college student or EVERY HBCU receives UNCF money. My HBCU certainly didn't.

Why do these ignoramouses think that if you are black, there is just free money out the ying yang for you??
If there is, would someone forward me the memo because it seems that I have over $40,000 worth of student loans for nothing.

Furthermore, many ethnic groups, such ITALIANS, IRISH, NATIVE AMERICANS, ETC. have scholarship funds set up exclusively for those of a that particular ethnicity. So in essense, with the exception of the Native American scholarship fund, there are already "white persons" college funds out there.

Why am I not suprised that BOO BOO the TEXAS FOOL doesn't know this.

Disclaimer...

No offense to my Texas Memberfriends and Sisterfriends. I am just talking about that fool

CrimsonTide4 · #3 03-03-2003, 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974

Why do these ignoramouses think that if you are black, there is just free money out the ying yang for you??
If there is, would someone forward me the memo because it seems that I have over $40,000 worth of student loans for nothing.

Honey yes!!! As an alum of a PWI, I had no UNCF money, not one dayum dime so I have $50K worth of student loans.

Anyone want to sponsor a PBW? (poor Black woman)

Bamboozled · #4 03-03-2003, 05:07 PM

LMAO. So how is this scholarship different from the majority of scholarships out there? He's just putting a name on it. I say it quacks like a duck and at least he's brave enough to call it a duck.

"There were a lot of scholarships I didn't qualify for because I wasn't Hispanic or because I wasn't black," he added.
I'm sure this is true. However, there are a whole lot more that he does qualify for, and will probably receive, because he is not black or Hispanic.

I'm with Honeykiss on this one: Ignoramus!

Confucius · #5 03-04-2003, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Whatever floats his misguided boat?

EDITTED:

Why do these ignoramouses think that if you are black, there is just free money out the ying yang for you??
If there is, would someone forward me the memo because it seems that I have over $40,000 worth of student loans for nothing.

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Ditto on the Ignoramus! I am feeling you on the $40K-$50K in student loans, I just started paying those mofos back. Ignorant people burn me up.

ClassyLady · #6 03-04-2003, 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally said by an Ignorant Man in Texas
"There were a lot of scholarships I didn't qualify for because I wasn't Hispanic or because I wasn't black," he added.

Okay, and your point??? There were a lot of scholarships that I didn't qualify for because I am not
- Left handed
- A sleepwalker
- the daughter of an Avon lady
- Italian
- Irish
- German
- A science major
- an education major
and a host of other things. Does this mean that I have been discriminated against? Of course not.

I swear sometimes it seems that certain people will go out of their way to try to eliminate the few programs that we have tried to give ourselves instead of trying to eliminate the injustices that caused the need for them in the first place.

librasoul22 · #7 03-04-2003, 08:16 PM

I think everyone should ignore this guy. It is clearly a ploy to get attention. He expects there to be a firestorm of contorversy or whatever...why entertain him? And also, the less attention he gets, the less money he will raise thereby making the scholarship, and his point, moot.

Steeltrap · #8 03-04-2003, 08:25 PM

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Originally posted by librasoul22
I think everyone should ignore this guy. It is clearly a ploy to get attention. He expects there to be a firestorm of contorversy or whatever...why entertain him? And also, the less attention he gets, the less money he will raise thereby making the scholarship, and his point, moot.

Precisely.

Remember, clowns like this jones for media attention.

Also, look at the fact that Corporate America apparently is planning to line up behind the University of Michigan in that case that's before the Supreme Court now.

BluAce · #9 03-05-2003, 07:11 PM

There was a guy on our campus that would pull stunts like this on the regular, until one day he found himself in a match up (intellectually that is) with the right black students that really exposed the campus to what kind of idiot he was. He soon stopped his bantering after a little public forum wake up call on behalf of the black cultural society. I hope there is a brother/sister or organization at Texas Tech that is planning to do the same. He is clearly over the top.