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"Euell" <walkmaster91@go.com> wrote in message
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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.

You might want to check your sources. IIRC, he donated 10 million or so to
the United Way, and the United Way supports alot of programs in *depressed*
rural areas. Of course, you may not consider Yakima, for instance, a
depressed area.

And if that isn't close enough to home, consider the American Red Cross, you
idiot.


>
> 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
>
>
>