University slapped with civil rights lawsuit over racially 'discriminatory' scholarships | Fox News
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Western Kentucky University (WKU) has been hit with a federal civil rights complaint over a scholarship program deemed to be racially discriminatory.
The Equal Protection Project (EPP) of the Legal Insurrection Foundation with a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights over the weekend.
In its complaint, the EPP says that two WKU scholarships - the WKU Athletics Minority Fellowship (AMF) and the WKU Distinguished Minority Fellowship (DMF) - "are only available to non-white students."
The EPP says WKU's promotion of these scholarships violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as well as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The non-profit points to the recent Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harv. Coll., which determined that "eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."
"The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color," the Supreme Court ruled.
Per WKU, the AMF provides "at least four undergraduate scholarships in the 2023-2024 school year for students interested in careers focusing in collegiate athletics."
The aim is to "enhance the success of students of color - excluding student-athletes on athletic scholarships - within the athletic department's administrative areas." Those selected receive a $1,000 scholarship per semester.
To qualify, applicants must "identify as an underrepresented ethnic minority," meaning Black, Asian, Hispanic or Native American.
The DMF scholarship provides "[u]p to nine hours of resident face-to-face tuition costs for the completion of a primary graduate degree," plus a stipend of $15,000 per academic year.
Eligible students must have a "minority status," meaning "African American, Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, two or races or Hispanic/Latino."
"WKU should know better to run education and career programs that exclude students based on race. Such blatant discrimination always has been unlawful, but any doubt was resolved by the Supreme Court recently in its affirmative action ruling," EPP founder William A. Jacobson said. "A goal of 'diversity' no longer can be used as an excuse to discriminate."
Fox News Digital has reached out to WKU for comment.
The EPP filed a similar complaint against the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last month over a race-exclusive residency program for film students.
Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime, political issues, and much more.
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Perhaps the highly-educated folks on the left might finally recognize this fact one day.
Anyone know what the long odds on THAT are?
And every liberal will claim it's not racist.
No doubt at all.
Our country is so steeped in white privilege that a third of white college students lie about their race to improve their chances of success.
They see the success Warren had, why not try themselves?
The disconnect between the fantasies of systematic racism and white supremacy culture and the reality of white people pretending to be other races to have a chance to succeed should be causing massive cognitive dissonance. But reality never seems to intrude on the fantasy.
Comes down to one's definition of racism / what is a racist? ... from 2008 to 2016 a racist was any and every one that disagreed with former President Obama's policies etc... In the Trump era it became every white person in the US .. a white supremacist was hiding around every corner ..
Soooo racism/racist has become somewhat of a catch phase .. the true ugliness that is racism / a racist has been lost in a murky cloud of .. you might be a racist if .....!
Under the current administration / present day ... well your guess is as good as mine - when 5 black officers racially profile [in my opinion] a black man beat him to death during a traffic stop and the crime is called heinous, reckless and inhumane.... but not racist....? Apparently only whites are racist?
My half a cent worth Jeremy!
Peace!