Imagine a scholarship fund for minorities
When Cirilo Martinez was growing up helping his migrant parents pick crops in southwestern Michigan, he knew he didn’t want that kind of life as an adult. His parents didn’t want him to have that kind of life, either.
Fortunately for Martinez, an outstanding student in Van Buren public schools, he — along with five of his seven other siblings — was accepted by the University of Michigan, where there were scholarships awaiting migrant students.
Martinez, who is now a lawyer in Kalamazoo, doubts that those scholarships would be available to him today, in the wake of Michigan voters 2006 ban on affirmative action in college admissions, public hiring and contracting.
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