Affirmative action should only be abolished by a policy of reparations, which would be much more effective in erasing the terrible inequality that continues to exist now, despite 60 years or so of AA.
To get your head straight about what, if anything, we owe descendants of slaves, take a trip to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
But race-based admissions is widely seen as reverse racism, depriving non-white students of places that merit would otherwise win them. Bending over backwards to be fair to some means unfairly depriving others.When it comes to atoning for our original sin of slavery thinking about reparations — a much-more-affirmative action than trading skin color for SAT points — is clarifying about both reparations and affirmative action.
On our cross country road trip, Memphis was not our destination. We had booked an Airbnb there because it was conveniently located about halfway between Oklahoma City and Asheville. I didn’t have slavery on my mind. I had actually forgotten that Memphis was the site of MLK’s assassination in 1968. The emotions — is there such a thing as vicarious PTSD? — would have been learning enough. But also there was intellectual learning. Turned out I didn’t know everything there was to know about the subject.
There is no understanding New World affluence without that jumpstart provided by unpaid labor. We all still, every moment of our lives, go on benefitting from that terrible, unpaid labor. The Supreme Court may well abolish race-conscious admissions. What schools need to do is switch to another term: slavery-conscious admissions.
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