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I agree they don’t need pity. But they do need action to be taken in their favor and this was such an action.
Comment by Something22884 at 30/06/2020 at 19:41 UTC
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Yeah I mean how many thousands of times have incompetent white people gotten spots in elite universities or in high paying jobs or at the tops or companies solely because of people they knew and who their parents happened to be (especially with legacy admissions).
A lot of that stuff is de facto affirmative action for white people, because the white people got hired through networks that have been there for decades or generations and back then those places literally did not allow black people.
Ceteris paribus (with the rest [being] equal), white person is at an inherited / inherit advantage over a black person, just because it's more likely that a white person will have those connections (To get into Elite schools, powerful positions, and lucrative companies) because they had centuries to build networks in those places, whereas black people have only had a couple decades, and still not everywhere.
Affirmative action is the right thing to do anyways.
Besides, as for universities, they never promised that they would only accept the people with the highest test scores and grades or whatever. They're private universities and they can let in whoever they want. For centuries they let in tons of people who suck merely because they were legacies and their parents went there/donated a ton of money.. believe me, I've known people from these universities and they aren't necessarily any smarter than your average person at a state school. Oftentimes they do work a lot harder though, which in itself is smart, but not always. Cf george w bush and Donald trump.
They both got to go to Elite universities and hold positions of power and be wealthy even though they didn't seem to Merit it. How many more talented black people have had their place taken by someone like that? Meanwhile, the trumps and bushes and whoever else get to build up their networks and wealth and get their friends and family of the next generation into the schools and companies in power, while the black people again do not..
that's not exactly equality, it's not exactly fair, and it's not exactly Justice. And if we don't address the problem at the root, then it will never change.