This is even more disturbing than the money the Gates Foundation threw away on the Gaza greenhouses. This is a brief blurb from the National Policy Institute, a think tank in Augusta, GA., that, according to Wiki, describes itself as the right’s answer to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Bill Gates has made his scholarship fund off limits to white teenagers. The Gates Millennium Scholarship fund is financed by a $1 Billion endowment Bill Gates made in 1999. The fund explicitly denies eligibility to white students.
“Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they: Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian and Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American;”
Yes, I know that there’s a such thing as the United Negro College Fund, and other such racially designated scholarships. But Mr. Gates made a point when he testified in front of congress that capitalism works because of meritocracy.
And let’s dispel one myth right now: Gates wasn’t just some middle class kid from Seattle. His father, from Harvard Law School, was a partner in Preston-Gates, one of the country’s largest and most prestigious law firms. His dad had a significant hand in growing Microsoft from a small business to a megacorporation through his contacts at IBM through Harvard. And he and Paul Allen went to a very upscale private high school where they had a minicomputer at a time when that was extremely rare. So I don’t take anything away from Mr. Gates for what he achieved, but it was hardly from a middle-class beginning.
Melinda Gates, of course, married into money. Tons of it. And she’s the moonbat of the two. This has her fingerprints all over it. Her famous accomplishments include the Microsoft Paperclip, and Microsoft Bob.
So both of these white people, living lifestyles that Roman Emperors would have killed for, want to make a scholarship available to Obama’s kids, but not Joe the plumber’s. That is racism, and the racism can’t be washed off of that. And in case it’s not completely obvious by inspection, let’s haul out the dictionary:
Main Entry: rac·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\
Function: noun
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination
This fits #2 squarely. Note also, FWIW, that criticism of the president doesn’t fit this. And it doesn’t fit a long list of other things routinely called racism, such as:
- Calling Michelle Obama a wookie.
- Calling loud, obnoxious people water buffalo.
- Criticizing criminals who are non-white.
- Criticizing politicians who want to go easy on criminals who are non-white.
- Criticizing a religion.
No, if it’s not #1, or #2, it’s not racism. And this move by the Gates Foundation is racism.
FWIW, SuSE Linux works wonderfully if you don’t need to run windows applications. And it’s free.
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The pigmentation of skin should never ever be used to discriminate.
Fedora 11 is working great for me too.
waldensianspirit wrote:
That was Martin Luther King’s dream .
These idiots must not think very much of him.
Money is often wasted on the shockingly ignorant.This is racist without a doubt.It implies that one need only be white to have the door open for you, regardless of ability or economic status.
SO does this mean a German Argentine or Irish-Colombian can receive grants? They are Hispanic after all. My question is why is an Irish or German that is born in a Spanish country get grants but not a German or Irish in America?
Can someone explain?
What I think happens with these guilt-ridden white people is they associate racial minorities with poverty, and they associate whiteness with themselves. They go to ritzy private schools, and on to ivy colleges, and never meet a white person who isn’t rich.
Well not quite. They see white janitors and white taxi drivers and white plumbers, but they just don’t register. They’re the real invisible people. If you’re rich and white, all whites are rich. They just see right through working-class whites like window glass. So when they try to structure something to benefit the poor, they see poor and minority as one and the same. Because Joe the plumber doesn’t exist. And neither do his kids. They’re just not there in Gates’ universe. The walking invisible.
@ Rodan:
Why aren’t Jews included?One of the smallest and arguably the most oppressed minority in history. What, we’re all rich?
Racists Thieves,, make it clear what they are.
vagabond trader wrote:
The Jews made the mistake of succeeding.
@ snork:
So have Asians. Doesn’t mean we’re all successful.
@ vagabond trader:
Jews are the implicit chopped liver.
This so offensive.
Good evening, y’all.
This kind of racism is truly insulting to minorities. It’s private reparations saying “here you go you poor pathetic losers, see what a good person i am, now revere me.” It really seems so insincere. And wrong.
vagabond trader wrote:
I meant that collectively, but you’re point is dead-on. The Asians aren’t getting any “help” either, and in some cases, less qualified whites have been admitted ahead of more qualified Asians to make the numbers come out right.
What would be a disaster for the Jews now would be if they were set aside as a group rather than lumped in with “white”. If Jews could only be admitted in proportion to their percentage of the population, it would be worse than in the old days.
@ snork:
The irony is most Hispanics in the US I believe like 56% are biologically White! Spanish are very close to Italians Ethnically. In fact 15% of Latin Americans are Italian! So why does an Italian America can’t qualify, but their Spanish and Italian Latin American cousins can?
There is only one Answer, White Hispanics are inferior non Hispanic Whites!
This is proof of Progressive Racism towards what they perceive of as Non Whites. Hence the Nazis and New Left Progressives both agree in the concept of inferior and master races.
Bill Gates is a Racist, he would fit in with the KKK.
@ waldensianspirit:
Meh, he can take his money and shove it.
It’s their money but I personally believe if they feel too wealthy it should go to the children of all who work[ed] for them no matter their pigmentation.
@ chickadee:
See my 15, this is very Racist.
Money means nothing to these people.
They are like royalty amusing themselves by slinging money to a select group of special peasants.
@ snork:
I agree, its just so disgusting the way lefturds pick and choose who the favored oppressed minorities are.Its always about race and class, never the individual.
This proves the theory that American new Left progressives and Nazis are not far off in their thinking.
Both believe in Superior and Inferior races.
What they disagree is the solution.
Nazis believed in the extermination of the inferior.
American New Left Progressives believe that the inferior must be taken care of like Serfs.
@ vagabond trader:
That is the heart of Progressivism.
Classes and races, where have we heard that before?
Marx and Hitler!
Rodan wrote:
Exactly.
BTW, how is going to monitor the applicants? Require DNA evidence or just examine each person for “signs” of racial markers? This is very sinister.
I’ve never met Gates, but his former partner is a first-rate asshole.
I used to work in security at one of his numerous residences, and we were treated like furniture.
@ chickadee:
A libturd I know complained to me that his nieces, of Hispanic origin and adopted, always get a leg up on his son when it comes to scholarships and grants just because of their ethnicity.
I know several white people who can not afford even a used computer. Wish I could afford Apple.
@ lobo91:
Matches the behavior of progressive occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue toward secret service personnel.
@ vagabond trader:
Classes and the Races!
@ snork:
O.T
I left you a comment in the GPS thread, #42. Hope the info helps.
@ waldensianspirit:
The year they told us they couldn’t afford to give us raises was amusing, too.
Rodan wrote:
I dunno, I think he’s just a condescending snob.
@ Rodan:
LOL, all the bigots hate each other.
vagabond trader wrote:
Reminds me of my ex Scottish asshole complaining that this other guy is a bigger boozer than he is ( not an easy task.)
Now when I can get a free downloadable Linux API SDK like I can for Windows, then I will consider the shift-over.
Fine, Bill, just know that the laptop I bought a few months ago with Windows 7 is the last product of yours I’ll own. Oh, and my kid stopped playing with the Xbox when he got a Playstation 3 for Christmas.
I may not care much for Steve Jobs, but you know, I’ll take his products over yours any day. At least until he smacks the poor white kids in the head while begging the affluent whites to buy his products.
Hey – how’s that Zune doing in sales as opposed to the iPod?
lobo91 wrote:
You got treated better than most. Most get treated as if they are a stain on the furniture.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
I have relatives that work for him. They say the same thing – biggest jerk on the planet.
@ teacake:
Yeah, I have a friend who is a real tightwad, then complains about this one or that one being cheap. I just roll my eyes.
vagabond trader wrote:
It is so unfair. It takes away the incentive of people and the joy of actual accomplishment.
@ FurryOldGuyJeans:
I was just glad that he was rarely there. He owned the place for over a year before ever setting foot on the property.
chickadee wrote:
Hate to break the news to you, but this has been going on for a long time. When you fill out a form, you check a box. The clerk is frequently instructed to correct it if it’s been checked wrongly.
A Jewish friend of mine married a Black American. They had one son. The son was darkish-skinned, and looked North African (although many mistook him for Israeli, and some even mistook him for Dominican). The son married a Jew, and so their son, 1/4 black, and 3/4 Jewish is as white as his mother. From looking at him, there’s absolutely no sign of his having any African “blood” (other than the fact that they needed the extra-large tool at his bris). He may someday have to “prove” that he has a black grandfather.
teacake wrote:
Don’t tell me that you’ve been hanging out with Jimmah…
another example of paternalistic racism
The designed reality of our world allows for any mind housed in the widely variable temporal body potentials to share good or bad ideologies with another without any temporal constraints or limits.
Can you imagine a charitable conservative like Rush specifying that his donations only go to white soldiers or white kids with leukemia?
Admins
I’m having a major problem with s5.sitemeter.com loading
There’s only one hyphen American I accept or acknowledge. All-American.
Fuck the rest.
@ vagabond trader:
Well there is that racist approach of going after all the white blood cells.
Message to Bill Gates, you suck and so does Vista.
snork wrote:
And if they see them they call them White trash.
It’s only Febuary and my outrage tank is allmost empty
@ WrathofG-d:
LOL!
@ manforallseasons:
Perfect description.
it is economic paternalism plain & simple
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
Well … there is this:
for OpenOffice
More religion bashing at the BVoAF. Another day.
This probably won’t be a popular comment … but realistically, I’m going to have to stick to ‘Doze machines. I simply can’t afford Macs, and I want a machine I don’t have to fiddle with all the time, which eliminates Linux.
SciFiGuy wrote:
Sitemeter is blocked on my machines by NoScript. I noted that and left it that way. Is it of any value to Blogmocracy to load it?
At least it doesn’t cause problems ~g~
FurryOldGuyJeans wrote:
WINE keeps getting better with age.
OT:
Target Caught Wiping Israel Off The Map
@ WrathofG-d:
Unreal,just a little accident no biggie.///
WrathofG-d wrote:
Target should have been paying attention, but what probably happened is they bought 100,000 of these in China, and didn’t check. And the Chinese manufacturer probably didn’t have any ill intent either, they just got a hold of a map of the region from some Arab source. I don’t see anything nefarious, I just think Target wasn’t paying attention.
One more example of an American merchant not looking the goods over carefully. When you buy from China, you have to think of everything.
WrathofG-d wrote:
I wonder who designed them and where they were made.
This is priceless.No doubt Hussein will be trolling both groups for czar appointments.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123584
vagabond trader wrote:
From a completely non political accuracy standpoint Target should be ashamed. How do you sell an educational item which is, at best, 60+ years out of date, and truthfully completely wrong (as that portion of the Mandate alone was never specifically considered “Palestine”).
That being said, I find the whole thing dubious. I am getting sick and tired of the “oops, did I do that” (Steve Urkel) defense!
@ grambo:
Looking for one for the OS itself, possibly including the popular shells, not for an application.
snork wrote:
yes, I thought of that as well, but see #64.
vagabond trader wrote:
CAIR hasn’t filed tax returns in 2 years. Zero does love tax cheats.
@ WrathofG-d:
What,you mean the globes didn’t also have The Indian Territories, The Republic of Texas or the Ottoman Empire? It was only Israel “targeted?”
@ WrathofG-d:
But as I said, if they got a regional map from Egypt or Iraq or Oman or even Morocco, That’s all it would say. There are a lot of paper maps floating around the world that read like that.
The more interesting question is what do the internal Chinese maps say? I wouldn’t be surprised that many of the old maps from Mao’s day say the same thing. I don’t know the history of Sino-Israeli relations; how long have they had diplomatic relations?
vagabond trader wrote:
Vile
Interface
Sure
To
Antagonize
@ Macker:
lol, damnable thing never stops spinning long after a page has downloaded. Drives me nuts!!
vagabond trader wrote:
There just wasn’t enough room on that little globe.
WrathofG-d wrote:
I don’t think the melanin in the dog food was a conspiracy, either. They just have to learn to do QC like the Japanese, or forever make crap. I don’t know if the light bulb is going to turn on for them like it did for the Japanese, but I imagine their political leadership is not too pleased whenever something like this happens.
@ snork:
I don’t begrudge the company who made it necessarily, but instead but the burden on Target to explain to me why they are buying educational materials for sale which are nothing but pure imagination?
It would be interesting to know the source map for the globe, but that is merely an intellectual exercise. Target should know better!
@ snork:
We are cross-posting, but I hear ya. I do begin to question however when it ONLY happens to Israel.
Does Target not have a buyer? Not have QC?
I also wonder why there are so many international ebays, but none for Israel. ebay for Turkey and not Israel? Wonder if that is Israel’s choice or not.
@ WrathofG-d:
I really doubt Target inspects every little thing with all the millions of merchandise it deals with. Who would even think to check on that until its noticed. This really isn’t a big deal to me, just interesting and not surprising.
I do not much like Bill O’riley,(inside dust cover of John Kerry’s bio book), but just now he beat down Joe Kline of Time Mag. sooooo good, the last bit “, Kline says, “Bill then tell me what is wrong with Time Mag.”,, Bill says, “I do not have three hours”!
nice
@ teacake:
There is a Microsoft Israel with a very ironic icon for its “Defender” program in the bottom right corner of the page.
@ taxfreekiller:
lol, once in a while, zing!
@ teacake:
I seem to recall getting something off of ebay from Israel once. I think it was some specialized software or something like that.
@ snork:
The husband has bought stuff from Israelis, they always list on the US site.
WrathofG-d wrote:
There are “Israeli Silicon Valleys” both in Haifa and in Jerusalem, though the Haifa one is bigger. It’s not just Microsoft, it’s a lot of hardware companies, including Intel and AMD. Kind of around the corner from downtown and facing west.
Rodan wrote:
I guess you’ll have to go before the ‘color panels’ to find out.
@ WrathofG-d:
What, the crusader looking gated community?
@ snork:
I know, and not just in Haifa, and J’lem. If it weren’t for Israel, the ISM, and Electronic Intifada couldn’t work to destroy Israel – their computers wouldn’t work.
That (in addition to the apartheid “Window defender” program) is quite ironic.
teacake wrote:
And I suspect that Target’s going to have to eat the cost, because they bought these fair and square under Chinese law. Maybe they can pawn them off at some souk in Cairo or something.
vagabond trader wrote:
Anyone can list at any ebay they want from anywhere. Just none that targets Israel. I’ve listed things at various international ebays, wanted to list in Israel, but no ebay Israel. Just wondering why that is.
@ vagabond trader:
The apartheid wall racistly keeping all of the computer freedom fighter (ie: virus) out of your Zionist controlled computer.
But, but, my new Dell xps9000 is almost all white!
Will Windows 7 run on it?
/it’s all about race with liberals……..
WrathofG-d wrote:
Went to the page and have no idea what icon you refer to.
@ teacake:
Interesting.Wonder if it is political,since the paleos would undoubtedly scream for their very own site as well.
@ snork:
I know a guy in Iran that would just love them!
Good night, y’all.
@ WrathofG-d:
The one in Haifa is huge and obvious though, especially at night when all you can see are the signs. These places are where the international tech companies (generally American) congregate. The Israeli native tech companies tend to be scattered throughout the country, some in Tel Aviv, and some in old kubbitzim.
@ teacake:
Yes it seems to be a rotating advertisement. It was a huge gray wall advertising “Windows Defender”.
@ teacake:
here this gives an idea
vagabond trader wrote:
Or the pallies might use ebay as another way to launder money or whatever. Don’t know.
@ WrathofG-d:
Kudos to the wall and its gate!
WrathofG-d wrote:
okay…. got it now. Weird.
teacake wrote:
It could have something to do with the fact that ebay’s founder is Iranian, but I thought he was pretty western.
The other thing is that maybe there’s a local alternative that drove them out. Israel’s a brutal market. Starbucks, for example, folded and left because they couldn’t compete with the locals.
@ teacake:
Nah, they got the Obama Administration for that. Some cash in through the Campaign from Hamas, and millions out from the White House to the PLO.
Clean, and legal – investment multiplier.
OK, I’m Out now.
@ teacake:
They already do that. I’ve seen Hamas and Hez’bollah t shirts and sh#t listed from one of their “refugee camps.”
It is criminal the way Asian-American kids and lower-middle class white kids get shafted.
snork wrote:
I thought they left during the height of all the humanbombs.
@ Speranza:
I thought Gates “allows” Asians to apply for the dosh. Have to check the original story.
@ teacake:
Actually, after looking at that list, I don’t see any Arab countries, either. Maybe their site can’t handle right-to-left.
vagabond trader wrote:
ebay US? How did you happen to come across those?
snork wrote:
Just Turkey.
@ teacake:
During the Lebanon war I was looking for something and came across it.
OT- Sorry:
Whoa, the nontroversies keep piling up. This time from… The Guardian? The Freaking Guardian?
Say it ain’t so Mr. has-been jazz musician.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-emails-climate-jones-chinese
Speranza wrote:
And beyond that, look at the lowering of standards and quality across the board in everything.
@ vagabond trader:
Yup, Asians can apply. Just not whites. And since they use the word “Asian” that can also include subcontinentals. I could see an Arab trying to argue that he’s Asian. I could see an Egyptian arguing that he’s African. But let an Israeli argue that he’s Asian*…
*Interestingly, most of Israel is on the African continental shelf. The Jordan valley is a continuation of the Great Rift valley in Africa.
Gah………… Blew up at a co-worker today because he was wearing a Che T-shirt, told him Che was a ruthless murdering bastard who personally executed over 800 people by his own hand, Jose said it wasn’t the same Che, I yelled at him Che was a fucking monster, how can you defend him… I heard several other co-workers laughing in the break room because of my out burst…
@ teacake:
But Turkey uses Latin letters since Attaturk.
@ teacake:
Teacake, just a quickie check:
http://cgi.ebay.com/HAMAS-GAZA-PALESTINE-HEADBAND-MILITARY-WAR-FATEH-ARAFAT_W0QQitemZ330387265879QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4cec9d9957
snork wrote:
LOL that went over my head. Thing is, that is the only middle eastern country that has an ebay. Oh well. I like your idea about right to left. lol
doriangrey wrote:
Sometimes you just have to holler a little bit. You did your co-worker a favor. He needed to know abt. the murderer.
@ doriangrey:
lol, not the same Che, what his evil twin?
@ vagabond trader:
Creepy, wonder if its worth it to report their stinkin ass to ebay? Does ebay allow modern nazi clothing?
@ chickadee:
maybe laughing at him/her would have been a better way?
@ teacake:
I think I did back then and obviously they don’t care. They freak over KKK memorabilia, probably nazi stuff too.
VT, ebay is financing hamas I guess.
more from that seller.
Bill Gates is the person who claimed he needed to hire overseas because the workforce was not qualified enough in the US.
I had two white women friends in the military that both dated and married black guys. One did it and thought she was making an important political statement to everyone but herself. The other one because she was in love.
Bill Gates money has balloned his head into Michael Jackson looney land.
There are good high schools for at risk black kids in the US. His money is best spent emulating those. He could go build 4 dozens schools in haiti and staff them.
But excluding people who need help based on the color of their skin in this manner is liberal racism. And they approve of it.
@ 70 Macker: I met two Americorps workers at a party. They spent a lot of time trying to score coke. Probably unsuccessfully since they eventually reached me. Young kids just out of college.
@ teacake:
The paleo commie party patch, a must have to go with your peace scarf and Che t shirt.
This really is starting to become a sick world where some prejudices are ok and others are less than ok. Glad I don’t have to make these distinctions. And I don’t.
VT if you care to write to one of the old timers at ebay his personal ebay address is: jgriffit@ebay.com
The same day the man who first published James O’Keefe’s explosive videos exposing wrongdoing at community organizer ACORN came to his defense Monday, claiming the conservative filmmaker “sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney” while the prosecutor made his case to the media, the U.S. attorney involved stepped down.
Well that case seems to be falling apart
vagabond trader wrote:
But of course.
@ Nevergiveup:
Certain forms of racism are OK, just as 100 years ago other forms of racism were OK. If things keep going this way, we’ll see “Whites Not Allowed” signs around the Left Coast and Northeast in my lifetime.
And I don’t really expect to live all that much longer.
@ Nevergiveup:
Is it just about time for his interview with hannity? I’d love to hear the details. As I’ve mentioned, don’t have tv.
@ teacake:
Thanks teacake, he wouldn’t want to hear my opinions I’m sure.
Iron Fist wrote:
And soon the “No Sailors and Dogs” signs will go back on lawns across America!
vagabond trader wrote:
Even all the better! I wrote to him recently to ask why sellers are not allowed to give negatives but buyers have that option. I think he would recognize my name if I wrote again.
His answer about the negatives only stated ebay will never again allow sellers to give negatives, and didn’t explain why. Really really bad policy change there because you really can’t determine who your selling to.
chickadee wrote:
I build satellites for a living (communications, weather, GPS astronomical research and military), I do not work with people who before today I would have thought of as uneducated or stupid.
To say that I was shocked and dismayed to see a co-worker wearing a che t-shirt would be a serious understatement of the fact.
Nevergiveup wrote:
If he sat in jail for 28 hours without an attorney, the case is toast no matter what goods they may have on him.
I am getting so sick of O’Reilly pimping that dumb book “A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity” and his “Bold Fresh Tour” with Glenn Beck. Enough!
@ Nevergiveup:
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that O’Keefe and Breitbart have a very good lawyer, and they led the DA and the media down the primrose path.
Hey look over there! A duck!
@ Speranza:
I recall a few years back when he constantly talked about what great friends he and Mel Gibson were and how they were business partners.
@ teacake:
Hey teacake, just watched the O’Keefe interview. Sounds like the charges are bs. No wiretapping or tampering with phones. He can’t go into further details, is cooperating with the Feds and they have 2 different vids of the entire caper.He did call the press out for journalistic malpractice in reporting lies and distortions.
Sounds like he just wanted to get to the bottom of why constituents were unable to get through by phone to Landreaus office for a couple of weeks.
teacake wrote:
I will not see any Mel Gibson movies ever again.
@ doriangrey:
/Che got killed cuz he pissed off the Bolivian ‘ Migra’.
Get an ICE ballcap and start wearing it to work. See if Jose squeezes his chile over it.
snork wrote:
I don’t know what internal Chinese maps say about Israel, but I do remember that they claim the entire South China Sea down to the Malaysian provinces of Sarawak and Sabah, from the coast of Vietnam to the coast of the Philippines. Of course Taiwan falls within their territory as well. It’s jarring to see this map and realize that the Chi-Coms believe their territorial waters extend over 1000 miles to the south, while Malaysia’s extend only a few miles north.
Imagine if US maps showed our territory hugging the entire coast of the Yucatan; we’d be the imperialists of all time!