Color-blind=Inequity

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Since Kindling Flames has been on a higher ed kick this week, I thought i'd continue the trend with this article about how hundreds of thousands of scholarship and fellowship money originally designated for minority students, are being opened up to students who are white.

In 2000, only 11% of Hispanics and 17% of African Americans over the age of 25 had received a college education. For many minority students, financial aid is the key to attending a college or university. As need-based financial aid continues to decline, minority students need the money designated to them by specific grants and scholarships.

**Pretending that all things are equal and that race doesn't matter is a dangerous state of mind which will increase the under-representation of students of color at our country's colleges and universities. Color-blind ideologies and policies do not strike down inequity...but rather perpetuate it.

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