Marcus Carter, a young black male, has decided to start handing out whites only scholarships.
“Just because you don’t benefit directly doesn’t mean it isn’t beneficial,” said Carter, a 27-year old Army Veteran. Carter is also the vice president of the Former Majority Association for Equality (FMAFE), an organization that only gives scholarships to white males.
“It just got really frustrating when every other scholarship you happen to find online you need not apply to based on your ethnicity or gender,” said Colby Bohannan, one of the group’s founders.
Carter says he joined the group because after doing two tours of duty in Iraq, he believes that giving scholarships to anyone is beneficial to everyone.
“I can’t really say I understand where they’re coming from, being only 27 years old, I don’t feel racially oppressed,” Carter said.
The board of FMAFE includes two women and a Hispanic man. Their group has received $18,000 in donations. They were granted 501(c)3 status this month. They are going to hand out five scholarships across the nation.
Carter mentions that this is not the only group that just gives scholarships to white students. There is another group at the University of South Carolina and a second at the University of Mississippi. It’s probably no coincidence that this kind of thing is happening in the south.
