No, it got one into the presidency. The American people support affirmative action and have for years or they wouldn’t nominate or elect the people they do.
“The Affirmative Action pedigree is not worth the paper it is printed on for one!”
And that’s the real problem with black unemployment among black college graduates. No one can tell anymore if a black candidate’s credentials are meaningful. Is the black candidate with a college degree someone who did well in college and deserves their degree or were they simply handed a degree because they are black?
Affirmative action has cheapened the value of credentialed black folks and works a tremendous hardship on those blacks who earned their college degrees the good ol’ fashioned way, burning the midnight oil and working their asses off, because black folks with any sort of credentials are now automatically suspect as possibly not having earned their credentials.