[Justin26844]

to answer your question, yes, affirmative action creates a slippery constitutional crisis by attempting to reverse racial privlege with different racial privlege. how do we end it when it’s done? how do we determine when it’s done? concievably there could be a period of overlap in a future when african americans can enjoy equal opportunity without being profiled by police and store clerks, insurance and real estate redlining, and predatory loans, and affirmative action then provides african americans special privleges over whites. but affirmative action was implemented to counter the constitutional crisis created when ‘all men are created equal’ was written by men who had other men tending their homes and buisineses without recompensation or dignity of self-governence. the dream of a society in which privlege is earned by merit rather than parsed out or withheld by a preexisting elite has never been realised in the u.s. (although more here than anywhere else). if the exaggerations of demegougues from both sides of the debate who have a stake in keeping everybody pitted against one other get under your skin, i don’t think affirmative action is so constrictive on whites that you can’t simply tune them out and live your life.

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Name : Justin26844, Gender : M, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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