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Article #750Re: Billionaire Gates: "Not $00.1 for poor white kids!"
From: Euell
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:24
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:24
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Thanks for bringing this up again. We tend to forget. If Gates was anything more than a butt kisser re: the lawsuit, he could find a good use for money in depressed rural areas. Boelke "FightBack3" <fightback3@aol.com1> wrote in message news:20010611004954.01628.00003789@ng-da1.aol.com... > The latest reports on monopolist Microsoft chief William Gates say that his > personal wealth is now $100 billion. That's more than the combined personal > wealth of half the population of the United States. > > Yet this phenomenally-wealthy, ultra politically-correct, Harvard-educated > son of a wealthy family and his wife Melissa specifically exclude poor white > European-American kids from receiving a dime of the many millions of dollars in > educational charity that they lavish on non-white kids. > > The millionaire bastard Kennedys, the millionaire bastard Gores, the > millionaire bastard Gates's . . . > > from www.eaif.org : > > EAIF Silicon Valley: THE BILL GATES SCHOLARSHIPS > > EUROPEAN/AMERICAN ISSUES FORUM > Silicon Valley Chapter > Clarice V. Gault Chapter President, Dale Warner Chapter Vice > President. Chuck W. Johns Chapter Treasurer. > > > THE BILL GATES SCHOLARSHIPS > > by Mary O. Minshall > > The Gates Foundation will give fifty million dollars a year in scholarships to > students via its Millennium Scholars Program. However, none will be available > to economically disadvantaged, urban or rural, low-income, single-parent > household, or immigrant European American students because of their race, > ethnicity, or national origin. > > This is disturbing because there are Midwestern areas where "one out of three > households in counties dominated by agriculture makes less than $15,000 a year. > [See Cedar Rapids (IA) Gazette Online, Dec. 7, 1999.] In fact, > 40% of America's urban and rural poor are European Americans. > > Why are European American youth excluded from this scholarship program, when > the Gates Millennium Scholars Program website states "that everyone, regardless > of race, gender, income or age, should have access to education and learning"? > The Gates Foundation Millennium Scholars program should include > European-American students, and should exclude no one because of his or her > race, ethnicity, or national origin. > > Silicon Valley European Americans are making this one of our top four issues > for public education next year, and we approved the following letter for > forwarding to Mr. & Mrs. Gates. We urge all other European Americans to > voice their concern similarly. > > ******** > > > > EUROPEAN AMERICAN ISSUES FORUM > Silicon Valley Chapter > Los Altos, CA 94022 > > > December 16, 1999 > > Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation > Gates Learning Foundation > PO Box 23350 > Seattle, WA 98102 > > Re: Gates Millennium Scholars Program: > > Dear Bill and Melinda Gates: > > When we read about the Gates Foundation's proposal to invest fifty million > dollars a year to fund scholarships for needy students, we were pleased to > learn that you want to help young people achieve their educational goals. > However, both the newspaper articles and your Internet site indicate to us that > no funds will be available to economically disadvantaged, urban or rural, > low-income, single-parent household, or immigrant European American students. > > Just recently, a study revealed that there are pockets of poverty in Midwestern > rural areas where "one out of three households in counties dominated by > agriculture makes less than $15,000 a year." It has been reported that 40% of > America's urban and rural poor are European Americans. Should not these > economically isadvantaged low-income European American students qualify for > scholarships? > > We are troubled with the exclusion of a major portion of our youth from the > benefits of your program. Your organization even stated on the Gates Foundation > web site (Gates Millennium Scholars Program, Frequently Asked Questions), "Bill > and Melinda (Gates) believe that everyone, regardless of race, gender, income > or age, should have access to education and learning." Many European American > students now enrolled in high school and college are qualified to continue > their education, but their families lack the necessary funds. > > We find the lack of recognition of the economic needs of European American > children to be fundamentally contrary to the American ideals of fairness and > equal treatment for all, regardless of race, religion, or national origin. We > hope you find it in your hearts to amend your current grant giving policy to > include qualified economically disadvantaged European American children. Thank > you for your kind consideration in this most important matter. > > Sincerely, > > Clarice V. Gault > Chapter President > > EAIF Chapter San Francisco > > > > > http://www.americanpatrol.org > http.www.steinreport.com > http://www.fairus.org > ftp://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/itaa.others.html (Prof. Norm Matloff) > > ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
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