n Race-based scholarships, as well as race-based employment, quotas or any other type of preferential treatment, are indeed a societal scourge that states, implicitly, at the very least, that “a person isn’t qualified on his/her own merits and/or abilities, and therefore needs special consideration in order to be fully recognized as ‘equal.'”

The Caucasian Scholarship being offered by the Boston University College Republicans (“BU group offers white scholarship,” Nov. 21, p. 1) is indeed a fantastic idea to expose this idiocy and hypocrisy for what it is.

Those who protest and vilify such a scholarship on the premise that it is somehow racist because it is being awarded to a white student, are the very individuals, for the most part, that will advocate and support such race-based preferential treatment for their own demographic, thereby further substantiating and verifying the total hypocrisy and duplicity that exists.

Where do I mail in a $50 contribution to make this award a $300 scholarship? After all, $250 won’t buy much in today’s economy. I’ll gladly send a check to support and bring to light such folly and to expose the hypocrites that exist today.

A $50 investment toward such a noble endeavor is paltry when compared to the message it sends to those that need to hear it.

Dennis L. Landes

Fort Worth, Texas