BF2S Forums Pay-by-race bake sale at UC Berkeley

Macbeth wrote:

Analogy doesn't really fit. Tuition rates are the same for everyone.

Not exactly true... I got a number of grants, scholarships, and tuition breaks from the school because I am part Native American. I did not fill that out on the paperwork, but found out my parents did. I declined the money, because I think it is racist, to be honest. It pisses me off and goes against everything I believe in. I don't think I should be given money because of an ancestor that had no control over who they were born to either. That just doesn't make since in a nation that is supposed to be EQUAL.

However, the school was allowed to accept all of those offers on my behalf, even after I declined them, and then they got additional grants for having so many minorities attending their school...

So yes, I paid less for my brownies because of my race than whitey did. It is a great analogy. The only thing they could have added would be to not let the white guy into the bake sale at all, cause there wasn't enough room.

Since when is it harder for a white than an asian to get into Berkeley?

Cybargs wrote:

So much harder for Asians to get in

I thought that was due to their small, wait... what were you guys talking about?

Macbeth wrote:

There are grants, scholarships, and other things for people who are white too. One of my high school teachers got a full ride through a private university on a scholarship from an Italian organization. I'm a brown guy and I don't get any sort of special grants or scholarships. I don't know maybe it's a native American thing.

In the UK and elsewhere many companies sponsor students through uni, or did.
Good luck getting that if your face doesn't fit.