Bill and Melinda Gates: Some Americans need not apply

In the age of corporate royalty, where corporate executives wield absolute power, the ultimate Queen has been crowned: Melinda Gates. The top two titans of corporate power, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, have consolidated into a single superpower, and the new Queen is Melinda Gates. She will exert dominion that will rival any nation, yet there was no election, just a coronation.

In the future, it will be interesting to watch how she uses this new found power. Let’s take a look at how that muscle is currently being used.

The Gates Millennium Scholars Foundation is a starting point. Apparently, anyone can qualify for this program, except for Americans of European heritage. It’s a fact. On the Gates website, the criteria are outlined. There is a list of ethnic and racial groups that are allowed to apply, with the notable exception of persons who are of white or European heritage.

The criteria for Candidates are as follows: candidate “is African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American.”

Further details on what constitutes Asian Pacific Islander: “Asian Pacific Islander American ethnic groups include persons having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, but not limited to: Bangladeshi, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Laotian (including Khmu, Lahu, Mien, ThaiDam and other ethnic groups from Laos), Malaysian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Thai and Vietnamese (including Montagnards and Khemer Khong). The Pacific Islander.”

Apparently, the “idea” (as espoused by Bill Gates) that persons of Indian and Chinese heritage are superior in Math and the Sciences does not effect their eligibility for this generous scholarship program. As groups, they are also some of the more financially successful in the United States.

So why is there a targeted Gates scholarship that includes these groups that already tend to have ability and access to education, and also tend to have adequate financial resources? Does the poverty in India or China somehow effect the qualifications of those who have already become successful U.S. citizens, many for multiple generations, far removed from any circumstances in a far away country?

We are all Americans, no matter where our forefathers came from. Aren't there some Americans in need of scholarships, no matter what their heritage?

So why exclude Americans of some mixed European descent? Have poverty and access to education been eradicated for all white Americans, therefore they don't need to be included? Are all Americans as educated as they need to be? Has Bill Gates ever left his cocoon and seen poverty in the United States?

Bill Gates keeps saying that education is the key to the future, but apparently not for financially strapped Americans of any European descent.

One can only ask a simple question: Are Bill and Melinda Gates discriminatory against white Americans? Why the special racial or ethnic criteria for the Gates Millennium Scholars Foundation? What is their agenda?

Time will tell.