Access to 99.75 % of what?
…although white students often think that so-called minority scholarships are a substantial drain on financial aid resources that would otherwise be available to them, nothing could be further from the truth. According to a national study by the General Accounting Office, less than four percent of scholarship money in the U.S. is represented by awards that consider race as a factor at all, while only 0.25 percent (that's one quarter of one percent for the math challenged) of all undergrad scholarship dollars come from awards that are restricted to persons of color alone (1). In other words, whites are fully capable of competing for and receiving any of the other monies--roughly 99.75 percent of all the bucks out there for college. But apparently, that's just not good enough for the likes of the BU Republicans. One quarter of one percent of all scholarship money, and yet that is the "worst form of bigotry confronting America today." The suggestion would be laughable were it not so sad; so indicative of a fundamental break with the ability to think critically and logically about the world… Dayum.
Racism, Scholarships and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood, By Tim Wise
Racism, Scholarships and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood, By Tim Wise