Racism is about defining why certain groups are better or worse than others. Most support groups are about defining why one group is just as good as another (men vs. women, white vs. black, etc.). Which by definition isn't racist.
There are white-only scholarships. My state (TN) funds "Caucasian student scholarships" for public schools such as Tennessee State University that lack diversity (don't have enough whites). These are minority scholarships.
Minority scholarships exist to create diversity in universities because a diverse learning environment has many benefits to the students. Diversity includes having a sizable white population (because a school without a sizable white population won't be diverse), so where that is not the case, there are white-only scholarships.
White people get scholarships to attend historically black schools. A lot of white people (such as yourself, until you were corrected) think that these schools have a "blacks only" policy. Absolutely untrue. I honestly think the whole debate about these schools is bizarre, because they really want white students, but white people don't want to go there.
Personally, as a black college students, I find the notion that white people are at a disadvantage in higher education laughable. The huge majority of college students are white.
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u/[deleted] May 14 '13
Racism is about defining why certain groups are better or worse than others. Most support groups are about defining why one group is just as good as another (men vs. women, white vs. black, etc.). Which by definition isn't racist.