A Particularily Cheap White Wine

First off, I like the title of this reading. I think it plays well off of the fact that the people he writes about in the article are white, whining and cheap (wanting people to give them a scholarship).

I thought the article was good, the facts surprised me. The fact that less than four percent of scholarships awarded in the US are based on race really threw me here. I thought for sure it was around fifty percent, but that's obviously not the case. It never really bugged me since I once applied for an Italian American scholarship, so I would be someone thrown under the bus by these "White winers".

I have to admit that I am sometimes angered when people of different races than I use their race as an excuse. There was an African American girl that I worked with that was not a good worker and was disrespectful to her superiors and co-workers. Whenever she would do something wrong and get reprimanded for it, she would say they are singling her out because "I'm black". That really bugged me because it was like an excuse. But what I got from this article is that all people of all races are not like this, they aren't using their race to get scholarships or jobs all the time. They are just trying to get by like everyone else.