Reverse Racism

Racism is Racism, Reverse Racism is no Racism at all.

A young lady I have known for most of my life has recently graduated high school. Knowing the family and instability she came from, this was a big big accomplishment for this young woman, I am very thrilled!

I don’t know just yet what her options for college are, but I do know that she herself believes she has none. She wants to go to Oregon State University, I am fairly sure this can be accomplished with a 2 year Oregon transfer from any Oregon Community College.

Her parents are currently living in a trailer of some sort, with a bucket for plumbing. Her sister, younger, dropped out of school some time ago.

The young lady we are talking about hasn’t recieved her diploma yet, as she didn’t turn in some books, through the many moves, the books are gone. But I’m sure there’s a simple enough solution for that.

As for further education, she’s a very shy girl, and when I asked about college, she just said she didn’t have money for college, looked at me as though I were an alien. I do know how it is after all, we all grew up along the same paths, which is why it is important to me that this girl knows she has options.

The books are the smallest problem, the next problem is going to be the financial aid forms. She’s just 17 right now, so her parents will be required to sign financial aid forms, which believe it or not has stopped a few people that I know dead when it came to applying for assistance for college.

Her parents likely don’t even file taxes, though I don’t know this for certain, hopefully not though, because if they do at all, they’ll not be interested in sharing that information with their daughter.

They will also prefer to pass when it comes to signing anything. It’s like second nature when your life is as hard as it is. I have another friend patiently waiting until she turns 24 because her parents would not assist her in filling out college forms.

Starting with her grades, again she’s shy, though I’ve known her since she was very small, I hadn’t seen her in several years, so she doesn’t want to tell me she barely graduated, if that’s the case.

She just tells me that her grades were not that good. I can see that, when your restroom is a bucket, grades aren’t great.

But this is the time for change, a young girl that actually wants to do something with her life, but thinks she cannot, that’s just sad.

This is the time in her life that she has the power and the will to break the cycle created generations before her. Four of her own siblings were taken away from her mother by the state, her mother was in fact taken from her mother.

So I began my search online for the girl that doesn’t want to live and create children in a crazy world of poverty, the girl who’s parents find crack cocaine more powerful a motivator than an actual address, and a toilet.

Without much experience in this area, I started my search at my own daughters High Schools webpage. I know that even if we have to find her a job, and I have to help her a bit, we can accomplish an Oregon Transfer to a local university, it took me 4 days to get her to tell me that she REALLY wants to go to Oregon State.

My house is full, 5 great kids, a husband, and we take care of ‘uncle bob’, but if it means this young woman has a chance at a future, it’s going to be just a little more full here real fast.

Before we go to the community college and make an appointment with a counselor, which I’ll be doing very soon, I wanted to look online and see if there are any possible scholarships for her.

I know that the options for someone with ‘bad grades’ (I do not know the GPA, just that she says they are bad) are probably slim to nill, but I wouldn’t be who I am if I didn’t spend a few hours searching.

I scanned through several of the scholorship options on my daughters high schools home page. Until I came to the one that brought me here.

African America? I really thought with the changing of the United Negro College Funds name that this kind of discrimination must be gone! You’re saying here that the young woman’s skin has to be black for her to even apply for this scholarship?

I realize this is irrelvant, as I’m assuming she does not have a 3.0 GPA, but I must ask the question, would it be alright for me to start a scholorship fund that was open only to caucasion students?

This kind of ignorance really pisses me off, so much that I needed to stop my search and come here and share it. How long will we stand for racial separation? It doesn’t matter which way we go with it, against Blacks, Whites, Mexicans, or purple monkeys, it IS racism.