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Re: Billionaire Gates: "Not $00.1 for poor white kids!"

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From: Euell
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
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>   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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