I Was Watching

The Today Show on NBC 30 this morning and was watching a segment about how the rich are getting richer but the middle class American gets a pay raise and it barely covers the cost of the rising energy costs. I know all about that, I'm not even sure if I fall in the middle class range. I make more that minimum wage but I can tell you if the minimum wage rate keeps rising, they will be making the same as me in a few years. So anyways, they were saying that the rich are so rich they are giving money away. Hey if your rich and want to give away your money, I could use some!!


So I was doing some reading about Bill and Melinda Gates. The have The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As I was reading I was thinking about all the wonderful things they have done with their money. They are truly blessed to be able to help people. Well I as I keep reading, I get to the last few parts of the article to a a paragraph about criticisms. We all know this country still has huge racial problems and something that really plucked a nerve for me was the fact that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which offers college scholarships, only offer those to African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American applicants.[7] Because the program focuses on racial and ethnic minorities. They exclude Caucasians. Now why would you do that?? My family wasn't rich and could never afford for me to go to college either. Now I have a 12 year old son and probably will never be able to afford to send him to college. So if you are middle class you can't get a scholarship and if you are white you can't get a scholarship, so where does that leave things? How many other programs are set up that way? Just because we are a Caucasian family doesn't mean that we are anymore well off than any other family of a different race!

 

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