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• helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No point fighting. Just remember its the same people that don’t understand a scholarship only for “people of color” is by definition racist. If a “white people” only scholarship is racist so is the one for people of color.

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  • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you pretending to misunderstand because you’re a racist, or do you actually misunderstand because you’re an idiot?

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Please explain to me why a group of people gets a specific scholarship made for them soley based on their skin color?

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      • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Research has shown that students from Black minority and ethnic (BME) backgrounds are less likely than white students to achieve a first or upper second class degree, despite high level entry qualifications. Deep rooted inequalities and systemic racism contribute to this. Furthermore, this can lead to differences in employment outcomes between white and BME students long after graduation.

        Imagine we have a student from a disadvantaged background. They win a place at university and they receive the tuition fee loan and maintenance loan from student finance. In the majority of cases, these loans will not cover their living costs and this is why 67% of students now have to work part-time while they study. If you cannot rely on the bank of Mum & Dad, the pressure of studying and working to cover your costs such as food, books, equipment, travel and accommodation can take its toll on your studies. 79% of students now say they worry about money constantly.

        Of course, scholarships do not have to be exclusively offered to BME students. They can also be used to achieve other diversity targets, such as attracting women into STEM or disadvantaged students in to the professions.

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      • BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sure. People of that skin about 15 million people for 400 year built this country without being able to reap any rewards for their contributions. Then I took another 80-99 years to give those people equal rights that we still struggle with today. By the time they became equal everything was owned and they were already cast into poverty. Until we see equal outcomes from people of that skin color as the average majority they deserve as much help as we can give them. Honestly they deserve reparations. But instead they only get scholarships until the college population equals that of the racial makeup of this country. Oh yeah they qualify for college just they wouldn’t get accepted because the institution is racist or with out the help the kids will have to potentially put their family at risk with huge loans.

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