So I was going to do a tech entry but this caught my eye.

Whites Only Scholarship Creates Outrage

BOSTON, Nov. 22, 2006 — Joe Mroszczyk, president of the College Republicans at Boston University, admits he set out to stir up a hornet’s nest when he came up with the idea of offering a whites-only scholarship at the school. But he got a little more buzz than he bargained for.

“To tell you the truth, we didn’t see this coming,” Mroszczyk said. “The Drudge Report picked it up yesterday, and today I just finished a round of national interviews. It’s kind of overwhelming.”

All the media attention is focused on a $250 Caucasian Achievement and Recognition Scholarship offered by Mroszczyk and the BU chapter of the College Republicans. Applicants must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher; they must write two essays; and, here’s the kicker, they must be at least one-quarter Caucasian.

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.”

I agree with the stated explanation. Racial preferences in any form are bigotry. It doesn’t matter how much they claim to level the playing field they give preference to someone based on the color of their skin. The article goes on to say that the group is receiving hate mail and all sorts flak for this scholarship. It is no worse than the NAACP scholarship or any other ethnic group offering money to its own kind. It is only hated and making news because it is whites offering money to whites and Lord knows that we cannot allow that to happen. It is horrible and bad to give money to whites based on their skin color but acceptable for any other race. It is racism. It is not racism by whites but rather racism by those who would have this scholarship yanked.

I am not going to quote the whole article or go any farther into commentary at this point. I want to get people thinking and nothing more. This is a day of thanks and we should concentrate on that. However we should not forget that many people, regardless of skin color, do not have it as good as we and that we should help them no matter what. So what if someone wants to bring dialog by offering a scholarship for whites. If they are racist at least it can be confronted and if they are not then dialog about racial preferences is achieved. Seems like a no-brainer to me.