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Old 01-23-2007, 05:28 AM   #89 (permalink)
Pat Lamb
 
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Re: Two cyclists attacked and beaten in Portland

Stephen Harding wrote:
> Tom Keats wrote:
>
>> How sorry would you feel about an intelligent, compassionate
>> and articulate Mbuti woman who's denied an education & career
>> in medical research, or anthropology, or astrophysics, or
>> literature, or business, simply because of where she hails
>> from, and is considered to be "too primitive" or too "not
>> white" for such lofty goals?

>
> I wonder what college/university in the US would not admit
> someone for being too "not white"?


Don't know, but my (white) brother got a minority scholarship while
attending a predominantly black school!

Pat
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