Texas Group Will Offer Scholarships To White Men Only

A new Texas non-profit plans to extend scholarship support to those they say are undersupported in higher education: white men.

The group, called the Former Majority Association for Equality, was formed by Texas State University student Colby Bohannan and others and hopes to provide four $500 scholarships to white men by July (donations are being accepted via the group's website).

The group's mission statement says that it wants to "provide monetary aid to those that have found the scholarship application process difficult because they do not fit into certain categories or any ethnic group."

Bohannan told Reuters that the group's goal "is actually just to help students."

"We are not trying to jump on any political agenda or bandwagon," he said.

According to the Austin American-Statesman, Bohannan is in fact in the minority in Texas, where non-Hispanic whites compose less than half the populace.

Bohannan told the Statesman that he felt "excluded" when applying for college scholarships, many of which target minorities.

"If everyone else can find scholarships, why are we left out?" he said.

As of press time, the group has received $581 in donations.

Comments

[rmarie]

08:16 PM on 04/06/2011

"The group, called the Former Majority Association for Equality..."

That's truly a funny name for their group. They should've named it the "White Guys Who Don't Want Equality, But Domination Association".

In any case, there's not really a problem with it...I don't think it's illegal. There are scholarships specifically for people of color, so why not White guys. I think it's kind of sad that they exclude White women from being eligible, though.

[Shambab]

08:19 PM on 03/17/2011

Whites are on the path to becoming a tiny minority in EVERY COUNTRY on the planet.
(all Western ones) Not just in America.

They are DECREASING in number, while Asians, Africans, are INCREASING in number.
(Asians and Africans will always have our OWN countries, so we are not going to become a minority and become extinct)

Becoming a minority is the first step to Extinction.
All you Whites are mad that only you are going EXTINCT, and that all the other races will live on forever. Hahaha.

You won't have any HOME countries of your own anymore. It will be ILLEGAL to have a White Baby. LOL.

[Art Franklin]

01:27 PM on 03/28/2011

Shambab, does that mean I can make the blanket accusation that it is ignorant Asians and Africans that are causing the overpopulation problem on our planet? Is it just Asians and Africans that are too stupid to curb their breeding without the government stepping in like China?

[rmarie]

08:20 PM on 04/06/2011

You could make such a statement, but it wouldn't be true. In the U.S., the numbers of Asians and African Americans aren't growing much. In fact, African Americans now only make up about 13% of the entire U.S. population, whereas we used to account for a larger percentage.

[rmarie]

08:18 PM on 04/06/2011

Actually, Asian and African American populations (in America, at least) aren't increasing much at all. But you're right, we'll be the last to go when it comes down to it, since we were the first ones on the planet.

[LASIS Blog]

08:42 PM on 03/14/2011

New York Law School's legal reporting blog recently reported on the legalities of this issue and yes, it might actually be legal: http://www.lasisblog.com/2011/03/14/white-males-the-new-minority/

[Brit Toombs]

03:14 PM on 03/14/2011

This is a comment to everyone else that's commented. At my school more white people got scholarships than minority people. Why? More white people at my school applied for scholarships than minority people. All of our scholarships are based on merit only, and basically if you qualify for it, you get it. It had nothing to do with white privilege or whatnot. It simply had to do with the amount of people applying for the scholarships.

And you know, I know a lot of minorities. I work with them. Most of them dropped out of college or never went because they didn't think it was worthwhile or because it wasn't "cool." So, let's stop playing the race cards and stop blaming administrations for picking white people over minorities. Let's start realizing that there is a whole generation of kids not going to school because of their "street cred" and teach them that college is important now and that they need to start applying for scholarships and such.

[soccerman]

03:41 PM on 03/09/2011

I am a white male and I received plenty of financial aid. This was solely based upon my academics and leadership, not my race or ethnicity. In my opinion, all scholarships should be offered based upon merit.

[Leslie Daley]

02:43 AM on 03/10/2011

I am a white woman in the National Guard and had all of my College paid for my college. However my sister has to take out student loans because all of the scholarship opportunities she looked at were for minorities. We live in a small minuscule farming town in Upstate NY, and we have 9 people living in my home. We're poor under privileged whites (yes, people, they DO exist) and 500 dollars, which first off wouldn't even BEGIN to equal the amount of money that's available to minorities only, would really help her and her daughter out and it's disgusting that racist anti whites find this to be racist when there's literally millions of money in scholarship funds that whites can't use because of our skin color. I'm 3rd generation Irish and 3rd generation French Canadian so my ancestors never once raised a whip towards any minority literally OR figuratively speaking so I don't fall under 'your ancestors back in 1860 owned slaves so that makes YOU a horrible person!" I know minorities have had it very rough in the past, and there are minority soldiers in my unit I would die for in a heartbeat and would proud to do so but it's time to move forward, people. Racism against whites is STILL racism.

[Shambab]

08:04 PM on 03/17/2011

Don't worry about racism against whites. Soon there won't be anymore whites left.

Whites are on the path to be a tiny minority in EVERY COUNTRY on the planet. You will not have any countries of your own anymore.
Therefore, white family on the path to extinction, since you have no HOME.

ONLY whites are going extinct though. All the other races will exist because we still have our own home countries, and we increasing in numbers!

It will be ILLEGAL for white woman to have a white baby in the future.

[emelanie]

07:17 AM on 03/04/2011

I am a black woman...and I don't find this racist. Being a white American male does not automatically mean you have privilege or money. There are many poor whites and well off blacks. Considering there are scholarships for women and minorities it would be just as racist/sexist to deny scholarships to a student because they are white & male. Maybe the solution to this problem would be to just stop creating scholarships that require you to be a certain race/gender altogether. Give everyone a fair chance to apply based on talent/ community service/ gpa, etc. It is the 21st century and we have already determined that race does not actually exist, but is socially constructed. So how will we ever progress as a society if we continue to distinguish eachother by race?

[bintalshamsa]

01:11 PM on 03/04/2011

emelanie, do you know the actual meaning of white-privilege? It doesn't refer to a single individual's situation. It describes the causes of systemic racism. It isn't necessarily racist or sexist to deny a scholarship to a student because he is white and male. If a scholarship is set up to aid different groups, then it would be silly for a white male to think that he should be given their money.

You also seem to misunderstand what has and has not been determined about race. Race is not a biological reality, but as a social construct it is just as real as other groups that are socially constructed (e.g. Christians, Buddhists, liberals, conservatives). It makes no more sense to pretend as if race doesn't exist than it does to pretend as if religion doesn't exist, even though neither one represents anything that science can verify using the study of genetics.

If you think that everyone should have a fair chance, then you're making the argument for continuing the practice of providing scholarships to people from marginalized communities. Ironically, this can include white males, depending on whether they meet certain other qualifications (e.g. left-handed, LGBTQ, age, participation in certain organizations). So, what this Texas group is complaining about really isn't about making sure that whites have scholarship programs available to them. It's about the fact that they are bitter that OTHER groups now have what they alone were given at one point in time.

[DRAGONLEE29]

12:53 AM on 03/09/2011

If a group wants to give 4 $500 scholarships away to whomever they chose that should be their right should it not? If I myself wanted to GIVE money to any group whether they be black, white, Hispanic...whatever religious background or natioinality that would be up to me as an individual. It's not like this is a government backed program and it is for $2000 for crying out loud.

[howtoshyne]

01:03 AM on 03/10/2011

THANK YOU for stating that! And I absolutely agree - we won't be able to move past this socially constructed idea of "race" until we stop dividing ourselves based on the color of our skin. It doesn't matter if this division, such as scholarship requirement is "for the greater good," it still divides our society in an unfavorable way and is in my mind no better than the "whites only/blacks only" signs from decades past. Besides, if we do as you suggest and "give everyone a fair chance" it will ultimately create a stronger society as more Americans will be motivated to "give it their all."

[Discurso Civil]

01:06 AM on 03/04/2011

Humanity, throughout recorded history, has committed offenses against its own. It can safely be argued that there is not a race of people on this planet who have not committed mass injustices upon another as well as their own.

When one compares the progression of civil and human rights in the U.S. to the majority of countries around the world, it is almost unthinkable that white people in the U.S. could come under such scrutiny. Many African and Arab countries are still controlled, whether wholly or in part, by ultra-oppressive dictatorships and/or militaristic regimes. Slavery and genocide exist there to this day; and let's not forget that when Africans were being shipped to the U.S. as slaves, it was their own people who were selling them.

If one opposes the creation of a scholarship for white males in need of assistance, then maybe it's time to do away with the NAACP, affirmative action, the numerous awards and ceremonies that exist solely for the recognition of black people, Black Entertainment Television, the plethora of media openly geared toward black people, and the countless scholarships that exist for blacks only. The same could be said for Latino-only empowerment programs. It's interesting to note that Asian minorities in the U.S. have little to no Asian-only programs for their people. True equality can only be realized when no program, publication, or organization exists that is exclusive to some or inclusive based on physical appearance.

[deldell]

04:13 AM on 03/04/2011

I'll wager you any amount of money you wish that you are white.

[Discurso Civil]

03:36 PM on 03/04/2011

Neither white nor black... and not from the U.S, but an avid scholar of American history. But I digress.

A quick lesson when attempting to voice an opinion and be taken seriously - keep your comments related to the subject and contribute to the discussion with facts and common sense. We don't have to agree but at least give me something to think about. Good luck!

[bintalshamsa]

01:21 PM on 03/04/2011

I'm not opposed to the creation of this scholarship. There are plenty of scholarships like this that benefit white males. That doesn't mean that it isn't funny to watch these ignorant bigots pretend as if white males are being discriminated against because people from communities marginalized on the basis of race are now being given the same sort of support that white males in this country have enjoyed for hundreds of years. Let these folks give out their paltry $500 dollar scholarships if it makes them feel better. A fool and his money are soon parted.

You expose your bigotry when you ignore all of the television stations, media, scholarships, awards, and ceremonies that have been exclusively or predominantly white for many years and definitely prior to when people of color were allowed to meet together and form organizations. The reason why these organizations were formed is because people like you thought that their treatment towards these communities should be enough to pacify them and stop them from demanding the same rights.

By the way, I should point out that there are many programs for Asians in this country. The fact that you didn't know this just exposes how ignorant you are.

[Hobotent]

07:59 PM on 03/08/2011

I would have to respectfully disagree with you.
Both of my parents are first generation white immigrants with English being a struggle for them, and they also decided to have 8 kids.

How come my parents who struggle with English as a second language don't count as "minorities"? Don't Blacks or Hispanics who speak English perfectly who are covered under AA have a clear advantage over my Dad in the workplace?

With 7 other siblings and 1st generation parents, can't it be frustrating for underprivileged white males like me to see the heaps of scholarships given out to Blacks, Hispanics, LBQT, and even left-handed people, just for them being as they are? AA is good in theory I suppose, but for one, our family feels like we're being discriminated against by both the "privileged" and the "discriminated".

[Jordan Lorenz]

04:49 PM on 03/03/2011

I don't see anything racist at all in this scholarship. Finding scholarships for white males is extremely hard, and I'm glad to see that someone is trying to help them out. It would be nice though if people awarded merit instead of race, but you take what you can get.

[bintalshamsa]

01:22 PM on 03/04/2011

Uh, no. White males have always received the majority of scholarships in this country. They have been receiving them since before people of color were even allowed to attend universities.

[Jordan Lorenz]

07:51 PM on 03/07/2011

Actually you're wrong. Minorities now receive millions of scholarships every year, while "white" people are finding it harder and harder to find anything. My daughter is just now going through the whole college process, and almost everything we come across is for latinos, or african americans, or native americans. We shouldn't be creating these scholarships off of race, though. They should be by merit only. However, colleges now have to accept a certain percentage of minorities. Instead of all this "affirmative action" if you will, we should all wipe the slate clean, and be equals.

[Vermicious Knid]

04:55 PM on 03/02/2011

A scholarship aimed at white males is silly, but it does point out the silliness of basing scholarships on ethnic and gender identity. There are plenty of white people who are just as disadvantaged as any minority; the don't deserve to be neglected just because some other white people are rich. Financial aid should go to people who've had it hard in life, regardless of race or gender. All this obsession with race and gender is divisive and also runs counter to the ideal of racial and gender neutrality. It diverts people from the real division in America which is between the rich, the poor, and the declining middle class.

[bebrave2]

09:36 PM on 03/02/2011

I'm willing to bet you were born in the very late 70's or 80's? right? Welcome.

[bintalshamsa]

01:54 AM on 03/03/2011

What's silly is thinking that you can wish away the existence of white privilege and the effects of racism. When you are a part of the group that benefits from these things, the only division you may be willing to recognize is that which negatively affects you. However, those of us who marginalized on the basis of race recognize how self-serving that is. You want people to focus on fixing the injustices that impact you, but you don't want to do the same for people of color who point out real injustices that still exist today. No one has said that some whites deserve to be neglected. The fact that some are neglected doesn't change the fact that these same folks participate in the racial injustices that white privilege makes possible. Those who are rich often consider your fight against classism a divisive obsession that runs counter to the ideal that says everyone is capable of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. Are you willing to accept them as the final authority on whether classism is real and is going on today? If not, then there's no reason for people of color to buy into your foolish claims about white privilege and racism.

[reddy52]

07:52 PM on 03/09/2011

There is no white privilege.

[Alzara G]

10:52 PM on 04/14/2011

I have to agree. Even though my son is a white male starting college next year, and it's very difficult to find any outside scholarships that apply to him, I am certainly mindful of the fact that he has many advantages, just by virtue of demographics. I am grateful that the schools he is looking into offer generous scholarships and grants based on income. Not only will it help us tremendously, but this approach covers some ground toward attracting and including minority kids that statistically come from lower-socio economic backgrounds. Financial need is one color-blind catch all, but does it really go far enough? A greater percentage of minority kids are simply not starting off on the same foot, i.e., not living with parents that went to college, not going to schools with college bound kids, barely getting basic needs met, etc., etc. Those extra incentives are needed in my opinion and should not be resented.

[Corey Leamon]

11:17 PM on 03/01/2011

I knew plenty of non-deserving students of every color who got scholarships. One of the dumbest girls I've ever met in my life got about $10k for having an ounce of Native American, despite her knowing nothing about native history. Honestly, it's privately funded so they can do whatever they want. But if they really just want to "help students", what type of student they help shouldn't matter. That goes likewise to the obsession that all scholarship donors have with aiding their ethnic groups.

Sincerely, White girl who has always had amazing grades, is $30k in debt, and only ever got $200 in a merit-based scholarship because too many scholarships are obsessed with ethnicity.

[et q]

11:48 PM on 03/01/2011

Poor oppressed white girl...rotflmao...I'm black in Texas with a degree and never had a scholarship, what's her problem? Most people here are laughing at you because thirty thousand is pennies in terms of school debt.

[mypov123]

10:48 PM on 03/02/2011

Next she'll go on a rant about affirmative action.

[Corey Leamon]

11:27 PM on 04/23/2011

It's "pennies" right now because the rest is being paid for with the three jobs I currently have on top of school.

I never said I was oppressed. You said it. I only said that it shouldn't matter what color a student is. If they need help and deserve it, they should get it. How that's a "racist problem" is beyond me.

[TheWorldBlowsUpTommorow]

03:29 PM on 03/02/2011

Poor little white girl. Fortunately though, more scholarships go to white girls every year than go to black men and women put together, so white girls shouldn't be too chipped.

[Daniel Markowski]

09:24 PM on 03/02/2011

Did it ever occur to some of you that perhaps the "white girls" (notice that whites are never "men" and "women" in the eyes of the anti-white crowd) actually, you know, EARN their scholarships based on merit? Half of all black men don't even finish high school. Sort of hard to get a scholarship into a college when you can barely finish high school. If there are more whites that qualify for scholarships based on merit even in the face of affirmative action and racial quotas, I don't see why anyone is crying. Unless you resent white people, for some reason. Some you are assuming that there is white favortism at play (despite the laws in our country which explicity discriminate against them) and that there are just as many minorities who qualify for scholarships as whites. They are both unwarranted assumptions.

[Corey Leamon]

11:25 PM on 04/23/2011

Yeah, I know plenty of white girls that didn't deserve them. And I know plenty who deserved them and didn't get it. But unfortunately, I'm concerned about my massive debt, not the massive non-debt of white people as a whole.

[dreday1]

09:47 PM on 03/01/2011

I'm black and I have no problem with this. It's a private organization, they're allowed to do whatever they want with their money. What the article doesn't say is that you only have to prove you're 25% white to get the scholarship, but besides the point its not the 1960's where white people dominated the campus. Now they are the minority in a lot of campuses.

Go white people, get your little monies.

[JCosmona]

09:53 PM on 03/01/2011

25% isn't too hard.

[Barbarossa1150]

09:56 PM on 03/01/2011

It that it? That is just about everyone in this country. That makes this one of the most inclusive/ exclusive scholarships ever. This is a good news story after all.

[Barbarossa1150]

08:31 PM on 03/01/2011

Once upon a time there was these white guys who liked to learn things and they decided they wanted to open a school to teach other white guys sience and junk. This went on for a long, long time and they aquired lots of knowledge not just about science and math and stuff but also about how to run a college and then a net work of colleges. Eventually they shared what they knew with everyone on the planet. Everyone was happy and grateful, the end.

[emelanie]

07:59 AM on 03/04/2011

What the heck are you talking about? What subpar school gave you that history lesson?

[nongrata]

06:10 PM on 03/01/2011

I support him. USA is becoming to much like a nanny state like and now no one can have any opinions or say anything without someone being offended and then they are put on Anderson Cooper to be berated for being an individual with their own opinions

[Shambab]

05:49 PM on 03/01/2011

LOL. All the whites are mad, because ONLY whites are going extinct. LOL

They think we are all gonna be "Brown" one day. haha. Asia is always going to be Asian Einstein. Same with Africa, etc...

It's only you whites that will have no country of your own, and ONLY you won't exist anymore...

[Barbarossa1150]

06:10 PM on 03/01/2011

Not smart to poke the bear with a stick, as the world has seen many, many times there is nothing more dangerous than a large group of fearful white people.

[Barbara Graham]

06:12 PM on 03/01/2011

We are all going to be a pleasing shade of beige one day. There won't be any whites, and for sure no gingers, who are the genetic repository of ultimate white. You ever see those guys? They glow in the dark around their freckles! That's how white they are!

[Shambab]

06:23 PM on 03/01/2011

What do you mean by "we are all"?

You do realise that there are so few white people in existence that the shade of "beige" is unachievable.

[Daniel Markowski]

06:35 PM on 03/01/2011

So it's "pleasing" that we should all be "beige"? What about "diversity"? Or is "diversity" only for the people of the 21 century West? People on left side of the isle go ballistic over a weed or some sort going extinct but almost rejoice at the prospect of Anglo-Saxons or Irish or Germans or Scandinavians or any other intelligible breed of Western European going extinct. If all the of dog were to "become one," we'd find that dull and uninspring. But all the breeds of human being some mishmash with no distinct lineage, bring it on, right?!

If an African tribe faces extinction in Darfur, it's a humanitarian crisis. If the Boers go extinct in South Africa (and there is massive violence against them), it's because they deserve it (even though next to no one knows anything about SA). After all, they're just evil white people. Who cares? They probably sinned anyways.

Try to saying that we're all going to be "a pleasing shade of beige" to the massive numbers of rightfully proud ethno-centric Chinese who are less susceptible being guilted out of their inheritance and respect for blood ties. They're not just going to miscegenate because you say it's an inevitability so matter of factly.

Even if all the races did "mix it up," there will always be divisions of some sort or another. The idea that racism will end because we all have mixed is sillier and more ignorant than believing in El Dorado.

[Daniel Markowski]

05:39 PM on 03/01/2011

The anti-white male racism on this site never ceases to amaze me. So some of you are offended that there is a group out there that wants to help my kind despite the fact that racial quotas and affirmative action work against me by design? Some are offended that the group (white men) which funds most of the social programs (net contributers vs. net takers) are now being helped by a private organization via their own volition? It's offensive to some that the people whose ancestors built this country (the country was 90% white until around the 1970s) are getting help?!

What exactly is it that blacks/browns/yellows face that my "white privilege" shields me from? If other demographics do face some nebulous challenge that I do not face, why is it my responsibility to happily put my own interests on the backburner behind someone elses'? White men having group interest is sooo evil, I know. But I didn't create anyone else's predicaments. I don't tell the black community to have children 72% of their children out of wedlock or Latinos that it's a good idea to have seven or eight children on a construction salary.

There's this assumption that if the workforce is not equal in every respect (particularly if one sector is majority white male but less so when it's another group that dominates), some great injustice is afoot.

I fail to see why helping a black is any more noble than helping a white.

[et q]

06:29 PM on 03/01/2011

bi got a lert

[Daniel Markowski]

07:11 PM on 03/01/2011

You just proved my point. A positive assertion of white identity and white group interest is bigoted but La Raza, the ADL, the NAACP, the New Black Panther Party, MEChA, Asian American clubs, the anti-white SPLC, etc. are all fine.

Furthermore, find me any other place in the whole world where the people who built up the country willingly subvert their own interests in the name of minority PREFERENCE to promote some phony value like equality? The Ainu were basically annhilated by the Japanese. Yet they don't give preference to people in Hokkaido who are descended from the Ainu. Are the Japanese all backward, unenlightened bigots too? What about Arab people who ran the African slave trade for centuries? Are they bigoted for voicing their own ethnic interests while not apologizing at all for how they enslaved millions of blacks?

I can't help but notice double standards.

[milfytime]

02:44 AM on 03/02/2011

"What exactly is it that blacks/bro­wns/yellow­s face that my "white privilege" shields me from?" Colored disadvantage is what your white privilege shields you from. If you don't understand, google white privilege and learn what it means.

"It's offensive to some that the people whose ancestors built this country (the country was 90% white until around the 1970s) are getting help?! "
Who exactly where the other 10%? Black slaves perhaps??

"why is it my responsibi­lity to happily put my own interests on the backburner behind someone elses'?"
Because It's patriotic!

"But I didn't create anyone else's predicamen­ts."
No, you're right, your ancestors did, see above.

"I don't tell the black community to have children 72% of their children out of wedlock"
How is this relevant?

"or Latinos that it's a good idea to have seven or eight children on a construction salary"
WHAT?! Really? Seven or eight? Data please. And why do you think they are limited to construction jobs in the first place?

"There's this assumption that if the workforce is not equal in every respect (particula­rly if one sector is majority white male but less so when it's another group that dominates)­, some great injustice is afoot."....why shouldn't the workforce be representative of our population dynamics?

"I fail to see why helping a black is any more noble than helping a white."
It is hard to see many things when you only see in black and white.

[et q]

07:37 AM on 03/02/2011

fanned

[Daniel Markowski]

08:23 PM on 03/02/2011

"But I didn't create anyone else's predicamen­­ts."
No, you're right, your ancestors did, see above.
====================================

See what I mean about your own lack of respect/patriotism? That's a nice blanket indictment of an entire population wholesale. How discerning and judicious of you!

You just assume that the 90% white portion is all guilty of some terrible crime against blacks and that the 10% black minority were all virtuous and worthy of respect. And you talk about me seeing things in terms of black and white? Laughable. My ancestors, like most white people's ancestors in the South, were humble sharecroppers who individually had virtually no influence on public policy in terms of how blacks were treated. They probably scarcely even saw a black man in their whole lives. My ancestors, like most white people's ancestors, never owned slaves (yet tons of blacks, some of whom are probably ancestors of the ones who sold blacks to white Europeans in the first place still own slaves to this day in sub-Saharan Africa). My ancestors, like many white people's ancestors, actually did work that many blacks themselves felt too dignified to do in some cases.