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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: Reverse Discrimination
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Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 12:28:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 18 12:28:01 1986
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> > Think the United Negro College Fund  would have  given me a
> > scholarship?  Not a chance.  Think that if I created the United White
> > Boys College Fund, the ACLU would drag my butt into court.   You Bet!
> > (And rightly so, I might add.)  
> 
> Actually, no.  If you set up a private fund you may give money to whatever
> group you wish.  If you set up a PUBLICLY funded scholership program it had
> better help the public at large in a non-discriminatory manner, but private
> scholarship programs can be targeted (and many ARE targeted) at any selected
> group you wish.  White protestant blue-eyed redheads of Irish descent? No
> problem.  Purple wingajammies from the planet Thyroid?  Go for it!
> -- 
> -Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)

The distinction between "private" and "public" has been largely abolished
by anti-discrimination laws.  It's illegal to discriminate in employment
and housing, even if you are not a government contractor.  I doubt highly
that the "United White Boys College Fund" would be legal -- but scholar-
ships were administered by my high school specifically for blacks, 
Hispanics, and people of Italian descent.  I KNOW that the courts would
not have allowed them to administer the "UWBCF" scholarship fund.  This
is just plain hypocrisy.

Clayton E. Cramer