1. Brown wanted EQUAL opportunity to compete, not begging for preferential handout solely due to his race. He wanted to get in the golf course where he could shoot 67 on 18 holes, didn't want guilt ridden handicap pity points. ??
2. Today it means treating minority groups (excluding those who excel in edumacashion without the handouts) like some sub-human by saying that they need the extra 200+ points to get on the even ground with the rest of the race. Brown should be insulted.
3. The preferential treatment becomes the very obstacle Brown and the "minority" wanted/needed to overcome.
I am making sense only in my head I know, because I'm not as articulate as you, but it's not my fault. I wasn't given the 200+ extra points.
Are you sure that "Brown wanted EQUAL opportunity to compete, not begging for preferential handout solely due to his race"?
I'm with you on that. I think so. That case is so central to this issue that I can't begin to understand why we've ignored it on the conservative side. I see it labeled "judicial activism" in the liberal press. I don't take it that way. Seems to me a fundamental statement, consistent with American ideals. I think the liberal elevation of it has shorn it of its essentially conservative nature.
Nobody's disagreed, anyway, including you.
No, no, you affirm it:
The preferential treatment becomes the very obstacle Brown and the "minority" wanted/needed to overcome.Bing! Twenty points!