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I really wish that stories on affirmative action would actually address the history of why it exists, *who* it was intended for and how POC cannot all be lumped together when only one group experienced chattel slavery and had the racial caste system built upon them.
It’s malpractice to keep writing stories about “minorities” and how some are “privileged” under affirmative action.
Affirmative action lawsuits like Harvard’s actually provide an excellent opportunity for a nuanced discussion of how the architecture of race and caste works, of the differing experiences of different racial minorities, of what it means to have largely arrived after legal discrim
But that requires those writing these stories to have an understanding of this history and these systems themselves. Covering race and racial inequality well requires expertise just like any other beat. Wish people understood that.
Also, I’m zero percent interested in your “what about x minority who has suffered.”If that’s what you’re offering you’re intentionally missing the point.
Do y’all ever wonder how it is that white women came to be included as affirmative action recipients, and have benefited from it mightily, but are never the face of it?
