New minority to qualify for new scholarship

”Non-Hispanic white” individuals, according to the Census, will soon be the minority in the United States. A group of students in TX calling itself the Former Majority Association for Equality is responding to this by offering scholarships. Candidates who have a 3.0 GPA and are at least one-quarter Caucasian can apply for the scholarship. Article resource – Texas white men scholarship offers $500 to Caucasian students by MoneyBlogNewz.

Former Majority Association for Equality starts

The Former Majority Association was started by TX State University student Colby Bohannon. After serving in Iraq, Bohannon decided to go to school. He needed a little bit of additional money to do this. He started the association because he noticed most scholarships were offered to any person that wasn't Caucasian or was a woman.

$500 TX white males scholarship

The small scholarships offered by the FMAE can be claimed by anybody with 25 percent non-Hispanic white heritage with a 3.0 grade point average. A statement was made on the FMAE website. It states the group “has no political aspirations, financial agenda or radical social philosophies whatsoever.” The group wanted to make the distribution of scholarships more even. This integrated getting white men scholarships. Schools accept the $500 white men scholarship easily. It is just like any other.

America changing

The FMAE scholarship, like other “white men scholarships” offered before it, seeks to highlight the belief that white males are not truly a majority in the United States any longer. About 48.6 percent of U.S. births are non-white while women are about 55 percent of the population, the recent Census stated. Some think that scholarships based on race or gender need to just disappear due to this while others suggest that current statistics should be matched with them.

Articles cited

Census

census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-544.pdf

Wall Street Journal

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704312104575298512006681060.html

Reuters

reuters.com/article/2011/02/26/us-texas-scholarships-idUSTRE71P25M20110226

FMAFE

fmafe.org/About_F.M.A.html