I will say what I said over 30 years ago. If they will change the current AA policies to instead favor people from poor backgrounds they will be able to help the individuals who really did have a lot of barriers to overcome (ie those they claim to want to help). It will also at a stroke make a lot of the resentment and bitterness caused by overt racial discrimination go away.
Its a lot more defensible to say “we are helping those who are demonstrably underprivileged” rather than to say “We’re just going to assume everybody from this ethnic group is privileged and everybody from that ethnic group is underprivileged”. We all know that’s not true. Get in your car and drive through Appalachia some time. Kids from there are not privileged. Throwing even more barriers in their way is indefensible. Ditto Asian kids who may be from first generation families that don’t have a lot of money.
Except for the fact that that is socialism, plain and simple.
That makes a lot of sense. But...the left and blacks are saying all whites, no matter their bank accounts or lack thereof have “white privilege” just by being born white. This has been going on for years. I was passed over for a civil service job because I am white. It didn’t matter that my husband and I were walking the streets collecting aluminum cans to help put gas in our car so we could go find jobs. {this was in the 70’s).