On Nov 25, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Gary Nunn wrote:
For years, I've thought that the single biggest perpetrators of
bigotry
were organizations like the NAACP and Rev. Jessie Jackson (with due
respect to his positive accomplishments).
You are in the company of a large number of racists in maintaining that
thought. Let me know how much peace it brings you.
Perhaps that's a leftover of the civil war and slavery era?
Perhaps it's a continuing recognition among members of minorities
that they
have been and continue to be regarded as not-quite-equal.
"To tell you the truth, we didn't see this coming," Mroszczyk said.
I find this very hard to believe considering this:
The application itself offers an explanation: "We believe that racial
preferences in all their forms are perhaps the worst form of bigotry
confronting America today."
According to Mroszczyk, his group is offering the scholarship to
point out
"how ridiculous it is to have any sort of racially based scholarship."
"... to point out ..."
In other words, to bring attention to, to create a stir, to generate
buzz,
to raise a ruckus. If he is surprised, it is only at the level of
success
his plan attained. For him to claim that he didn't expect such a
reaction
seems disingenuous.
I do not believe for a moment that his organization created their
scholarship simply to help underprivileged whites. They did it to create
exactly the reaction they got.
Dave
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