re: Charles Barkley commits $5mil to ensure black scholarship at Auburn

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Apparently he doesn’t have faith that black students are capable of earning places at Auburn, since all the SCOTUS decision did was state race cannot be considered for admission decisions.

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Or perhaps he's just not ignorant to redlining school districts/funding and calling it "fair" like others that are either willfully or woefully ignorant on the matter.

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he reason Auburn has only 5% is because almost every black student who is up to Auburn standards gets recruited by Harvard et al. And we end up with 13% black enrollment at Harvard, most of whom can’t do the course work but get socially promoted; and we have Auburn deprived of the students who could thrive there.

Black students, probably partly because of this, have been choosing to segregate themselves into HBCUs

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That's really interesting. Have there been studies on that? I'd like to read them.

Looking at the link you provided, it looks like there even exists a large disparity among the Ivy schools.

I've lived or visited a good portion of the south and had always been curious as to how one rural town could be entirely white and go 4 miles down the road and the small town is entirely black.

I didn't grow up around it in the Northwest. Our communities are largely white and Hispanic and everyone gets along and have for decades.

I have read about some of the HBCUs and students that voluntarily self segregate. So Harvard and others are essentially targeting any traditionally qualified candidates that Auburn may take? I did see that Alabama is around 11% black. Is that because of admission differences or is Auburn seen as the old money white school, which I noticed when I saw their frats up close. No judgement, just my interpretation.

UGA is also really low, surprisingly, considering the large middle and upper income black population around Atlanta, or is it the same situation as Auburn?

I have no problem with him doing this, but it’s really now unconstitutional on its face, and maybe a grant to deserving candidates that meet the acceptance hurdle, could be an exclusion. Also the historic black colleges could be an issue with this ruling…

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It's his money I don't see anything wrong with this

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I don't think there's anything wrong with it on his end, but there may be something wrong with it on Auburn's end.

I say that because a friend of my Dad's who had no children but lots of money wanted to leave Auburn money to provide a scholarship but wouldn't do it because he wanted to stipulate that it couldn't go to a black student and they refused that stipulation.

If you can stipulate that your money go to a black student only, it seems discriminatory to not allow stipulations specifying other races.

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To be fair

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It’s hard to find three dumber words to start a post with than these.

Just a thought at the time. I'm saying, the bottom 10% of kids accepted to Auburn from in state.

He will probably be broke when he dies.

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He will probably be broke when he dies.

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Can't take it with him, but I'm betting Chuck isn't as dumb as you think.