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by blasdel 5806 days ago
Because there are mutual societies formed out of need for minority groups to support one another — most of them initially just for information sharing, emotional support, and legal defenses. Scholarships came later to help the children in their communities go to college.

Hell, almost all scholarships were endowed by people to help the younger versions of themselves go to college, it's just that the identity-forming characteristic is different for everybody.

Given the state of things in the US, there aren't really non-shitheads that primarily identify themselves as white.