Showing posts with label Backlash. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Study: White Students More Likely to Win College Scholarships



Yet another myth about "entitled" minority students busted:

"The report found private sector scholarship programs actually tend to perpetuate historical inequities in the distribution of scholarships according to race:

This does not appear to be due to deliberate discrimination, but rather as a natural result of the personal interests of the scholarship sponsors. Scholarship sponsors tend to establish scholarships that select for characteristics, activities and talents of interest to them. These factors, in turn, tend to resonate with students of the same racial background as the sponsor. For example, African-American students are much less likely to participate in equestrian sports (horseback riding, polo, rodeo), water sports (scuba diving, sailing, surfing, swimming, crew, water polo) and winter sports (ice hockey, skiing, snowboarding, figure skating) than Caucasian students."

Read more about unintentional rodeos and regattas here.

Meanwhile, "Wealth Gap Between Minorities and White Americans Doubles After Housing Crisis, Recession."