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Texan Wins Controversial 'White Man' Scholarship

 

Published July 02, 2011

| FoxNews.com

A controversial non-profit organization announced it has awarded the second of five academic scholarships to a Texas man. Among the criteria: the recipient must be white and male. The group sponsoring it says it's the only scholarship of its kind in the United States, My Fox Dallas-Fort Worth reports.

The award was presented by a group called the Former Majority Association for Equality. Its president, Colby Bohannon, says he has been called a racist and compared to the KKK.

 

"We're not racists. We have no agenda for bigotry," said Bohannon. "We're not trying to take away anything from any other group. We're just trying to help poor, Caucasian males afford college."

Recipient Brendan Baird is studying to become a physician's assistant, and the awarded $500 check will help him to pay for schooling.

To win, he had to demonstrate a high GPA, community service, sports ability and financial need. But what really sealed the deal is the fact that he is a white man.

"If anyone wants to say it's an issue of color, it's the color of green," said Baird. "And we all need it."

The group's vice-president, Marcus Carter, is black. There are also two women and an Hispanic man on its board.


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Originally Posted by Winston Niles Rumfoord:
Originally Posted by Road Puppy:

"I'm not guilty of anything. My ancestors ddn't enslave Africans and I don't care what color anybody is."

If you came from New England, your ancestors may have been in the slave importation business. That, and ever-popular whaling were New England favorites. 

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Nah, Winston.

 

I'm not originally from there-I just lived there for a while.

 

I'm "almost Canadian".

 The only thing my ancestors imported were more catholics.

 

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