[Augustine23656]

To answer the second question first, the UNCF makes scholarships available at historically black colleges. I’m not aware of any reason a non-black attending one of these colleges couldn’t get such a scholarship. As far as the ethnic pride celebrations go, keep in mind that ‘black’ is a de facto nationality in this country, and not so much a skin color. White people taken as a whole do not self-identify as ‘part of a group,’ whether in America or in Europe. Indeed, in my wife’s native Polish, there is no way to say ‘white people’ (‘biale ludzie’ doesn’t sound right, though it’s a literal translation). Virtually everyone there is white and there’s not a concept of self-identifying based upon that fact. But there are different nationalities among white people, and some of them choose to play up their ethnicity – St. Patrick’s Day for the Irish, Columbus Day for the Italians, and so on. There once was, and may still be, a Miss Polonia contest in Erie, Pennsylvania. So there is indeed ‘white pride’ if you want to call it that (I wouldn’t) – it’s just diffused among various nationalities.

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Name : Augustine23656, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 38, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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