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Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and Northeastern State University now award nursing scholarships that exclude every applicant who cannot prove Native American ancestry. University spokesmen defend the programs as efforts to increase representation, yet the plain terms of the awards grant public resources on the basis of bloodline alone.
This policy revives the ancient error of assigning civic standing by tribal membership rather than by individual merit or common humanity. It follows the same logic that once justified hereditary privileges in the old regime and now animates the managerial priesthood that rules through identity categories.
Scripture declares that God shows no partiality and that every person bears the divine image without regard to nation or lineage. The undivided Church affirmed this equality in the Nicene Creed and the subsequent canons that abolished distinctions of Jew and Greek, slave and free, within the household of faith.
The American constitutional order inherited this principle through the common law tradition and the Fourteenth Amendment, both of which prohibit states from granting or withholding benefits on racial grounds. When public institutions carve out scholarships by ancestry they repudiate that inheritance and restore the very tribalism the Gospel and the Western legal tradition were meant to overcome.
The complaint filed by Do No Harm simply applies the existing civil rights statutes to these programs. It does not invent new doctrine; it recalls the universities to the rule that public funds may not be distributed according to racial tests.
The deeper disorder lies in the assumption that historic grievances justify perpetual racial engineering. Such reasoning dissolves the household economy of Christendom, in which property and opportunity descend through families under moral law rather than through state-managed racial ledgers.
Faithful households and parishes must therefore withdraw support from institutions that practice open racial discrimination. They must back every lawful challenge to such preferences and begin constructing parallel training pathways that judge applicants by competence alone.
The alternative is the continued fragmentation of the nation into competing bloodlines, each claiming public largesse on ancestral grounds. That path leads away from ordered liberty and back into the ethnic clientage that Christendom was raised to replace.
