This guy pretty well describes what I have observed for most of my life. When I get to Med School it was pretty discouraging to discover at least 10% of my “classmates” clearly put far less into getting there than I had to. Frankly, I resented it. Still do. I have never accepted that it could be “Constitutional” to harm one citizen to the benefit of another.
It’s not. Samuel Adams himself said that our Constitution was written in part to prevent what they called “leveling” (redistribution of wealth). Such a concept really should apply to merit as well.
I saw it too in my med school classes. One color of citizens could flunk classes repeatedly, other colors would be out.
One of my black friends in my class said “I could never go to a black doctor cuz you won’t know if they got through by their brains or their skin color.”
Which is why I discriminate when I choose doctors...I prefer white males because I know they are probably the best qualified.