“The original idea of ‘righting a wrong’ also had a place.”
No, it did not.
The first reason for that is that you cannot right a wrong done to dead people by dead people. The truth to tell, they weren’t even trying to right a wrong. The sole purpose of Affirmative Action is to humiliate and harm whites and the United States.
The second is that it is never, ever morally acceptable to attempt to assist one person by wreaking a terrible wrong upon another, innocent person. Doing that on a large scale is just that much worse.
The third is that the wrong done to American Negroes that put them in their current situation was not slavery, but Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” and subsequent socialist atrocities.
The attempt to “right that wrong” by ruining the lives of millions of people, only a tiny fraction of whom have ancestors that owned slaves in the first place, is stupid and evil.
Affirmative action was and is a ghastly waste of human capital, an evil act of tyranny, and quite frankly just another con job by the enemies of all that is good.
First, I was talking about Jim Crow - not slavery. I’m with you on that part - can’t ‘make it better’ with people who are dead. Second it’s late and I’ve been watching the convention with a granddaughter who’s a Sanders fan... (She does a better job defending his positions than any adult I’ve spoken with... smart sweet child who I love dearly) But lots of questions. Lots. So I’ll get back to you later... sleep well...