Word: scholarshipped
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...newspapers this month about an 87-year-old black woman in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, named Oseola McCarty. Working all her life as a laundress, never marrying, living very plainly, McCarty managed to save an astounding $150,000. Facing life's end, she has decided to give the money to a scholarship fund for black students to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. Inspired by her example, Hattiesburg business leaders have pitched in an additional $150,000. The first beneficiary of McCarty's largess has "adopted" her, and vows to help the heroine through her frail and lonely...
...private sector. And this is reasonable enough. After all, the allegedly poisonous effects of affirmative action are the same, no matter whether it is private or government-sponsored. In either case, there is a white (or male) "victim." A white student cannot qualify for an Oseola McCarty scholarship because it is restricted exclusively to blacks. Since the premise of the scholarship is that it makes college possible for those who otherwise could not afford it, that white person will lose an opportunity to attend the University of Southern Mississippi simply because of his or her race. The decision to exclude...
...that it does harm even to its intended beneficiaries, by stigmatizing them in the eyes of others and teaching them the wrong lessons about race and effort. If that is true, it is equally true whether the reverse discrimination is public or private. Is Oseola McCarty's blacks-only scholarship really sending the wrong signal? Is it really doing the young blacks of southern Mississippi who will benefit from it more harm than good? Well, that's the argument...
...Blood Countess shows signs of that pastime. Codrescu mixes amorphous bits about the Hungarian State Archive with speculations surrounding Bathory. He further conflates legend and scholarship through his fictional Drake Bathory-Kereshtur, a descendant of the countess who lives in the U.S. and craves to be punished for a death in Hungary...
...country in the Western world with a strong, and vengeful, current of Fundamentalist apocalyptic religion. With the death of communism, new Antichrists and minor devils have to be found inside America. The two p.c.s--patriotic correctness and political correctness--have mutually fostered this search, creating an atmosphere of inflamed accusation; scholarship and the arts then become scapegoats, grotesquely politicized culture-war stereotypes...