If you're a hard-working high school student with good grades who is looking for a way to pay for college you might be attracted to the Bernard Harris Scholarship Program. This program award $5,000 each to four students who are interested in pursuing a degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
"To be eligible for the scholarship, the applicant must have a minimum 3.0 unweighted grade point average and have been accepted as a full-time student at a four-year institution of higher education," program materials say. That seems straightforward.
But if you happen to be Native American, Asian, or white, forget it. The Bernard Harris Scholarship Program will not give you anything, no matter your grades and no matter how badly you need money for college. This program is only for African-Americans and Hispanics.
Did I miss a memo? Is it now OK to discriminate based on race?
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