Here is how affirmative action began, in a time when we were still a very racist country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action#Origins
The fact that it has been taken to destructive and unfair extremes doesn’t make the original effort illegitimate. In those days, a Black person could hardly get his foot in the door of the great educational institutions or land a good job once educated. These were the days of George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door.
I KNOW how “affirmative action” began. I don’t need the smarmy leftists at wikihahahahapedia to tell me about my own life.
It was wrong then and has become a monster, as intended.
In retrospect, George Wallace was more right than the revolutionaries, fellow-travelers, and useful idiots pushing the grossly misnamed “civil” “rights” “movement”.