A Particularly Cheap White Wine

“A Particularly Cheap White Wine: Racism, Scholarships and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood”.
By: Tim Wise                                                        By: Ruby Lazo

1. “It will mean that colleges will become increasingly populated with white students whose SAT scores might be mightily impressive, but whose moral and ethical compasses, to say nothing of their understanding of the real world, leave something just as mighty to be desired.”

College’s accepting their students based on just one aspect will leave them shamefully lacking in others. If colleges were to begin just accepting students with the highest SAT scores, they would be doing a disservice to their college. Yes, these students may have the highest SAT scores but who are they as a person, how much effort do they put into their work, how will they represent their college… Shouldn’t those qualities hold some importance to college admissions? 

2. “The manufacturing of white victimhood”.

I have never heard this term before but it fits this article perfectly: white men and women victimizing themselves.

3. “Race-based scholarships for people of color are the worst form of bigotry confronting America today.”

I was in shock reading this quote. I could not believe someone would ever think to say something like this. If we continue to allow remarks like that to be said then these statements will unfortunately become more and more common in our society and soon people will begin to think that they hold truth.

This was one of my favorites articles we have read so far. The author did a great job defending his arguments. I was extremely shocked by some of the facts and statements I read. I could not believe what ignorant things people will think, say and do.

I wonder how the President of the College of Republicans at Boston University would respond to this.