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”.
I assume you would have been happy for Black people to remain second-class citizens, sitting at the back of the bus, etc., and your country making a lie and mockery of its own treasured Declaration and Constitution.