These affirmative action types of legal jargon that where thrown in everything legal related starting in the 90’s sounded like a good idea to help persons of color, but as we can see, letting people achieve the same success or more without the same level of knowledge obtained and achievement of knowledge will only help at the start of something and hurt the individual rest of the way. I remember reading sports articles back then that basically said colleges used affirmative action as a loop hole so they could get certain kids in academically that actually couldn’t get in with their grades or intelligence levels just because they wanted their athletic abilities. The only persons who benefited from this was the pockets of the universities. I have worked in business consulting with a concentration in ethics, HR, and compliance many years now and I’ve seen first hand how a degree from a prestigious university in lets say business management, can yield graduates with drastically different levels of actual knowledge and abilities. If you do not set a simple standard all must complete and adhere too, your only hurting the individuals because your giving them something they did not truly earn to the level of competence that matters. Your setting their future up for failure because on paper they might have a great degree, but in practice they cannot do the same job as well as the graduates who earned it through the actual standard set. This path of continued separation in standard that therefore contributed to systematic racism and the growth of it started with Lyndon Johnson ridiculous quote:

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.

Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.

Yes, all citizens have a right to walk through any gates they earn their way through and yes that is enough because we used to have benchmarks of success one could work towards to prove they deserved it through earning it. Unfortunately that statement essentially gave a loop hole that was exploited by capitalism that kept Division and contributed to wide spread systematic racism. Now think of how different things would have been if we as a country did not award people things who did not earn them to the standard that was expected? We would have seen an entire race of people spend the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s etc striving and over achieving and erasing the division through proof in action, but instead we have seen wide spread systematic racism because of the division created through letting people have things they did not earn just because they were a certain color. We created the “oh well that are black so that’s the best they can do so let them have it.” Which devalues and undervalued the task only for them and then the powers over all situations they would come across, would expect them to not be as good at the same things because guess what… we didn’t make them earn it as others had to… wtf didn’t he government expect? Now we have an entire country of people who expect to be rewarded and patted on the back just for showing up smh