Re: The just and the unjust ways to address modern racial inequality: affirmative act
It's not Chandler specifically it was the White establishment.
There were indisputably major damages purposely inflicted by a White government on Black people. And like we have a tobacco industry pay out to states for the deaths they caused long ago, in the case of Civil rights they decided to go the education route.
Instead of putting them on a reservation of their own or giving cash & private property reparations the White government choose to set aside chances for Blacks to go to college hence raising themselves up. And let's not forget this isn't just a slavery issue at all. The Civil Rights struggle was only 40 years ago. During my generation.
And here's a couple very telling things that point out just how hypocritical and in some cases (not all but some) racist people really are being when they search for that "it's not equal treatment card" only when it involves affirmative action and Black people.
Legacy enrollment: At the more elite school's of higher learning almost ALL WHITE! A Black could work hard to be qualified to enroll there, score higher on their SAT/ACT scores and be better or equal in every other way and the mere fact the White kid's father went there moves the White kid to the front & gets special consideration for enrollment.
Sports: As someone who's coached I have other coach friends a couple coaching in college. School is about learning and getting an education first & foremost. Buuut... the schools will take a good athlete of any color and put them under their wing and give them a full compliment of free special tutors, intervene with professors, get special extra credit & make up work to help them pass classes, allow them to take special make up tests.
And this has nothing to do with the athletic scholarship they earned. This is all EXTRA treatment. And the majority still never graduate. This is nothing more than discriminating against every single academically borderline student that goes to that school that just happens not to play sports.
Where's the outrage here. How come we aren't having a meltdown over how terrible these discriminations are? Simple... you can't just blame the Black guy so it's OK.
You don't have to scratch very far under the surface to see the underlying racism Conservatives often carry with them... all you have to do is look at the whole picture and it can be kind of an ugly 8x10 glossy.
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