Beryl was excited. She had won a scholarship to a prestigious university.
“All my hard work paid off,” said Beryl. “This is unbelievably exciting! Thank you!”
“Oh no,” said the university. “You got the scholarship because you are Black.”
Earle was excited. He had won a scholarship to a prestigious university.
“All my hard work paid off,” said Earl. “This is unbelievably exciting! Thank you!”
“Oh no,” said the university. “You got the scholarship because you are in a wheelchair.”
Fay was excited. Fay had won a scholarship to a prestigious university.
“All my hard work paid off,” said Fay. “This is unbelievably exciting! Thank you!”
“Oh no,” said the university. “You got the scholarship because you are transgender.”
Craig was excited. He had won a scholarship to a prestigious university.
“All my hard work paid off,” said Craig. “This is unbelievably exciting! Thank you!”
“Oh no,” said the university. “You got the scholarship because you are White. We had to show we weren’t biased.”
(Footnote: Unlike the scholarship recipients in the story above I have had the thrill of having won first place in Chel Owens’ A Mused Poetry Contest. It’s well worth a look at this contest if you don’t already follow it. And it’s fun, free, and easy to enter! You should think about giving it a go!)
Weave a Web 
I’m glad everyone got accepted to university. Hope they didn’t have to pay any fees (that would be discriminatory).
Congrats on the award!
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When I went through university everything was free (not the textbooks). Now it’s 10s of thousands.
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10s of thousands is just a piece of what you’ll owe.
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Congrats on the award and this story is really spot-on as they say. Somewhere. I’m not sure which spot is on, but, never mind. I liked it a lot.
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Thank you Herb.
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After Clarence Thomas graduated from Yale a lot of people assumed that the only reason he’d been given a degree was because he was black. He peeled a fifteen cent sticker off of a cigar box and stuck it on his diploma. Figuring that that’s about how much a degree based on racial prejudice is worth.
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Sometimes (like all the time) I think that many a university degree is not worth the paper it’s written on.
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My sister got married on the day I gradumacated. I have yet to get my paper.
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LOL – Boston College – my alma mater – sent the paper to “Bruce Goodman, New Zealand”. I got it!!! We are not very big!
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Haha!
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Wish you the best!
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Thank you!
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A remember once upon a time when people were rewarded based on their individual achievements against everyone and not according to their achievement within a group identity to align with diversity quotas.
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it would be nice if life was fair and non judgmental. but too bad…
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That’s true
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too bad we don’t live in a perfect world. Im lucky im a writer, i can make up whatever world i want. ;). my content is explicit though…
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I see. Good luck with that.
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I would enter that poetry contest, but I’m pretty sure I could never win because I’m not a goat. Or a poet. In all seriousness, though, congrats! Well earned, I have no doubt.
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Thank you – I think.
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A spot on interpretation of what is going on today. There is a historically black university in Durham where you can get a scholarship if you are white!
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LOL! It works in all directions! When I lived in Gastonia NC, I was the only White on the block. I loved it – everyone was wonderful!
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Spot on, and hit with a heavy hammer. 🙂 (Thanks for the plug for my contest, too.)
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