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02/15/2004 Archived Entry: "Young Republicans. Don't they make you proud?"
Young Republicans. Don't they make you proud?
This kid Mattera apparently has the 'Do as I say, not as I do' attitude of the Republicans down.
A student group at Roger Williams University is offering a new scholarship for which only white students are eligible, a move they say is designed to protest affirmative action.The application for the $50 award requires an essay on "why you are proud of your white heritage" and a recent picture to "confirm whiteness."
"Evidence of bleaching will disqualify applicants," says the application, issued by the university's College Republicans.
Jason Mattera, 20, who is president of the College Republicans, said the group is parodying minority scholarships.
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Mattera, who is of Puerto Rican descent, is himself is a recipient of a $5,000 scholarship open only to a minority group.
Replies: 16 people speak up
Just to make the whole thing complete, they should have a mock job fair, and when white and black students with identical resumes are interviewed for jobs, the white students are offered the positions. Oh wait, that's what happens in the real world. Never mind...
Posted by Neutrino @ 02/16/2004 07:03 AM NY
The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Black Ent. Television, Miss Black America, Jet Magazine, and so on...
Try to have a United Caucasian College Fund et al... and just see what happens. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would be knocking down your door! I am getting disgusted at the entitlement attitude that has apparently become America's mainstream. Affirmative action is just another form of handicapping! I don't think handicaps, ie: golf, in which certain advantages or disadvantages are placed on a competitor to increase their chance of winning are appropriate in any form. If ones opponent is better in golf.. That's it! Period!! He's better! Tiger Woods kicks ass!
Perhaps the US military should give hadicaps to the enemy just to give them a fighting chance.
Posted by Dakota Henwood @ 02/16/2004 08:11 AM NY
I would like to see anyone that does not think there is discrimination just try being a female for a week. I have worked in the tech industry for nearly ten years now -I still hear how "girls are not good at math & science stuff". Or how could li'l ole me, such a sweet delicate flower, possibly ever handle being the boss of such a manly man?
And this from a white female. I can't imagine being black or hispanic. Maybe the solution is to kick all the white males out of their cushy jobs and get ppl that do not discriminate against a persons race or sex or age? But I don't think that would go over too well, huh?
-K
Posted by K @ 02/16/2004 11:40 AM NY
No one is so blind to privilege as those who have it...
I suppose Dakota has a scratch handicap. No? Wanna play against Tiger Woods?
Handicaps (and affirmative action) is to make the playing field as level as possible. And...
Never mind. Why do I insist on trying to speak logically to illogical people? I think I'll go bang my head on my desk instead.
Posted by Charles2 @ 02/16/2004 02:34 PM NY
banging your head on your desk would probobly be a lot more productive than arguing with some stupid racist woman, at least it is a more productive way to make your head hurt. i just love to hear rich white people bitching about how all the cul'erds are being given special treatment, and how all the mexicans are taking all their jobs. care to bitch anymore about how white people are being mistreated by the evil entitlement programs?
Posted by justin @ 02/16/2004 02:53 PM NY
Easy with that 'racist' shit, justin - especially if you're pointing it at K for her post.
K is my fiance, and she is not a racist. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
Posted by editor @ 02/16/2004 03:46 PM NY
sorry, i should address my responses i suppose, no i was responding to Dakota Henwood, the woman who was complaining about tha United Negro College Fund and black entertainment television being racist institutions. sorry for the confusion, no offense intended to K, who im sure is a wonderfull person.
Posted by justin @ 02/16/2004 04:25 PM NY
Dakota's a woman? Who knew?
Sorry for being curt - my sweetie brings out the Defender in me. :)
And I didn't read Dakota's post - looked like anti-affirmative action boilerplate to me. If I wanted to hear that, I could turn on my radio.
Posted by editor @ 02/16/2004 05:01 PM NY
the only person named dakota that ive ever heard of is that little blonde girl from I AM SAM, i assumed this dakota was a woman also. i can certainly understand being defensive though, ive recently had to consider getting quite violent with someone who has been causing my wife trouble at work, but luckily he seems to finnally understand that hes fired, so i dont think ill have to. sorry for the misunderstanding.
Posted by justin @ 02/16/2004 06:51 PM NY
what a hypocrite this jason mattera moron is.
he says minority scholarships are wrong,but if it weren't for minority scholarships, this idiot wouldn't be in college!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey jason,why didn't you try to obtain a scholarship based on your merit and need instead of your color??????????
Posted by michael moton @ 02/17/2004 12:51 AM NY
what a hypocrite this jason mattera moron is.
he says minority scholarships are wrong,but if it weren't for minority scholarships, this idiot wouldn't be in college!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey jason,why didn't you try to obtain a scholarship based on your merit and need instead of your color??????????
Posted by michael moton @ 02/17/2004 12:51 AM NY
Not to mention the worst President we have ever seen and everything he ever has had was given to him. In all my years, I have seen WAY more given to whites who don't deserve it as opposed to worthy women and minorities getting any type of so-called handouts.
Posted by gammarock @ 02/17/2004 03:46 AM NY
hola
Posted by hey @ 02/17/2004 10:11 AM NY
this hispanic guy coming out against affirmative action after recieving such a big minority scholarship reminds me of a black nazi skinhead who lives in cincinatti. i guess he must have some kind of inferiority complex or something, either that or hes just a massochist (or most likely just an idiot)
Posted by justin @ 02/17/2004 01:45 PM NY
I am a white male raised in Maywood Il, a prominently black and hispanic suburb of Chicago. I have lived here, went to school here and was enveloped by the blanket rhetoric that my KIND had the keys to all the doors. There is a resentment in this country for the rich who do have those keys. Those rich are not exclusivley white and the white rich are not, by any means, the majority of whites. So most whites must now fight, just as hard as everyone else, without the aid of grants, points and scholorships based on their flesh. I have grown all too tired of the complaining minority. Yesterday, I saw what you have done on CNBC when I learned that you were hispanic I was taken back. For someone to hold this opinion that cannot benifit from it is most impressive. Here's my point. You have already taken a lot of heat for this and I'm sure there's more to come. I saw someone even say you are full of "self-hate" and I'm sorry you have to put up with that. I just wanted you to know that here just outside of Chicago, one person who will not benifit from your program has walked away with something else. I have thrown out my blanket rhetoric that all minorities are just out for the leg up and not concerned at all with what is fair. No matter what happens, thanks for that Jason.
Posted by Ron @ 02/19/2004 05:06 PM NY
I am a white male raised in Maywood Il, a prominently black and hispanic suburb of Chicago. I have lived here, went to school here and was enveloped by the blanket rhetoric that my KIND had the keys to all the doors. There is a resentment in this country for the rich who do have those keys. Those rich are not exclusivley white and the white rich are not, by any means, the majority of whites. So most whites must now fight, just as hard as everyone else, without the aid of grants, points and scholorships based on their flesh. I have grown all too tired of the complaining minority. Yesterday, I saw what you have done on CNBC when I learned that you were hispanic I was taken back. For someone to hold this opinion that cannot benifit from it is most impressive. Here's my point. You have already taken a lot of heat for this and I'm sure there's more to come. I saw someone even say you are full of "self-hate" and I'm sorry you have to put up with that. I just wanted you to know that here just outside of Chicago, one person who will not benifit from your program has walked away with something else. I have thrown out my blanket rhetoric that all minorities are just out for the leg up and not concerned at all with what is fair. No matter what happens, thanks for that Jason.
Posted by Ron @ 02/19/2004 05:06 PM NY
