‘Affirmative Action’ Inherently Racist?
To anyone who’d listen, I’ve been saying it for years: so-called affirmative action, aka race preferences, is inherently racist and demeaning. But perhaps it takes a high school senior to really drive the message home. Young Ravi Ram displays more intelligence, or maybe just more honesty, than most adult social engineers and “civil rights” crusaders. He writes:
“Affirmative action is based on the belief that members of minority groups are inherently underprivileged and therefore, in order to compensate for their inferior positioning, must be given certain advantages…Thus, while affirmative action appears on the surface to be a mechanism against racism, under further scrutiny it emerges as a system based on racism itself.”
From the mouths of babes!
Although Ram gets his name wrong, he accurately quotes Ward Connerly: “People are competing very well on their own without preferred programs, and (unfortunately) they carry the burden of people saying they got there by preference…It is time that we allow those people to walk with dignity.”
It takes a lot of courage to go against the grain, especially at a young age. Pressure to conform to peers is great. It’s not small feat to stand by what you believe, no matter the consequences. I’m certain Ravi Ram has heard his share of “Racist!” and “Self-hater!” insults. I would advise him, however, to learn to distinguish between affirmative action, which is not discriminatory, and race preferences, which are. The terms are used interchangeably but mean very different things.
