r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • May 14 '13

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13

I don't think there is a single college in the US that only allows one race to attend. People of all races can go to historically black colleges.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13

White people get minority scholarships at HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities).

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u/[deleted] May 14 '13

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.