some Cheese with your wine?

quote 1: "Despite the claim by the right that race-based scholarships amount to a double-standard (since scholarships for folks of color are considered legitimate, but white scholarships aren't), in truth, the standard is simple, straightforward and singular: persons belonging to groups that have been systematically marginalized in this society, should have opportunities targeted to them, so as to allow for the development of their full potential which otherwise might be restricted by said marginalization."

This extends passed both scholarships and race. When we talk about social services as if their "entitlements" we succumb to the same myth as the one propagated by the young republicans at Boston U. I think that article does a phenomenal job in proving its point through this and similar passages that the logic of the BU GOP doesn't fit. But I also hope that people take it passed that and see that this logic doesn't apply to most of the situations in which it gets brought up (unemployment, affirmative action, immigration, etc)


quote 2:"In effect, these are not scholarships based on race, but rather, scholarships based on a recognition of racism"

I think the one appropriate comment to this is, ZING
Wine:1 Boston U. GOP: 0

quote 3:"Bigotry is defined as "intolerance," and the behavior or attitude of someone who holds "blindly and intolerantly to a particular creed or opinion." Surely scholarships for people of color are not predicated on intolerance for whites, nor are they based on some kind of blind contempt for whites as a group. Rather they are rooted in the quite reasonable belief that people of color have been singled out for mistreatment on the basis of race, and thus, special efforts should be made to provide full opportunity to them "

This is, I think, such a vital clarification. Nothing is more aggravating then hearing middle class white Christians talk about how everyone is really actually racist towards them and biased against them. It does go back to the Delpit reading and the Carlson reading as well,these people have never really known what it is to be held back by their race or orientation and thus are completely ignorant of what it means to have that held against you. So when their privilege is stripped and the playing field at least partially equalized they feel cheated, cheated for their advantage.