The US Military Academy at West Point is being sued for its race-based admissions policies by the same group that won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Supreme Court over affirmative action earlier this year, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
More racism and more stereotyping is never the answer.
Centuries of racism can’t be fixed without compensation for those harmed.
Agreed. Though, that compensation should not come from everyone, but rather from the rich assholes who profited.
If you inherit a house with a leaky roof, it isn’t your fault the roof is leaking. It is your responsibility to fix the roof now though.
It isn’t just about the rich people who profited off slavery. It is also about the net effect of the entire society’s racism. Things like black children being given worse education or black families being prevented developing generational wealth through home ownership. We didn’t cause that, but we all inherited the house with the leaky roof and it’s our responsibility to fix it.
People looking at an issue surface deep is never the answer.
I’d rather use a more important metric like net worth to determine whether or not someone needs help. It doesn’t matter what color your skin is if you have money.
Instead stupid people will use racist ideologies like “It’s okay to make it harder for asians to get into schools, because they all had good upbringings!” No, not all asians are smart or had good upbringings. And yes it’s racist/wrong of you to imply they did.
I get what you’re saying, and I do agree with you to an extent, but
“It doesn’t matter what color your skin is if you have money.”
That simply isn’t true even a little bit. And you more or less disproved it with the second paragraph.
Racism exists in a wide variety of formats. Being wealthy makes everything easier, but easier is a relative term. Affirmative action may not be the best answer, but there’s nothing wrong with asking the question, “how can we ensure the military leadership closely resembles the demographics of the soldiers they are leading?”
Controlled for exact same family income, there are biases against people of color. So you’re not fixing anything.