That Old Double Standard
by Jeff Davis
One of the things that white people growing up in a Politically Correct society ingest with their mother’s milk is that there are certain things which white kids don’t get any more, certain privileges that now belong exclusively to people with brown or black skin. One of those things is the “scholarship.” It used to be the case that white children who did not have wealthy parents could get some organization to pay for college if they worked hard and performed well in both high school and on their college entrance exams.
Over the last three decades, scholarships for brilliant white young people are fewer and fewer. Added to this is a deliberate tightening of college admissions for white American children. The famous Allan Bakke “reverse discrimination” case involved a white applicant, who out-scored his minority competitors for admission to a UC medical school. After having the door repeatedly slammed in his face because he was the “wrong color,” Bakke sued and the UC system had to be less blatant in their anti-White discrimination. (more…)