SS...
nice initials
...you expected maybe something different?
Affirmative action is and was an example of social justice looked to by the judiciary as guidance in the law. Most ethnic minorities had blended into American culture, society and business, yet even after centuries blacks had not integrated in the same way. A particular class of prejudice was preventing it. Something had to be done.
We may not like how it was done. We may question the methods and even their constitutionality.
We must agree that something had to be done differently.
The solutions found were novel and required understanding and patience. Better ones could have existed, but, as is the point of "Lincoln", the best can be the demise of the good.
Agreed, but we now have the paradox of expecting the leaders of the 'Civil Rights' movement to 'work themselves out of their jobs' which will never happen. No matter how integrated we become, nor how ubiquitous minorities become in our media, government and educational systems, it will NEVER be enough to placate those who will find themselves without function and incomes should they deem it ever solved, fixed, or redressed. So they must always find faux racism under eveyr bed, in every closet and in every white persons heart or their dreaded fear of irrelevance overtakes them.
Meanwhile the hateful defiance of true racists begins to look to the niave to be courageous honesty and intelligence, which it is neither. Racism is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind, far surpassing Marxism in its penetration of our society and the unwarranted use of it as a foundational structure to our view of modern life.
Racism is a tragic historical accident that is maintained today only by all the 'remedies' being applied against it.