Ah, the excuses for inequality keep coming.
You didn't make a person handicapped so why the hell should YOU not get the closest parking spot instead of them?
You didn't oppress the people of Libya or Rwanda, bad leaders did, so why the hell should YOU lift one finger to prevent the slaughter of innocent people? Moral idiocy.
OUR SOCIETY caused discrimination that STILL HARMS PEOPLE AND DENIES THEM EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TODAY.
The 'color blind' society doesn't happen with the snap of someone's fingers. It actually takes more than than, but you are clueless.
Don't bother reading the following. It's an analogy. The post is over for you.
For others, the analogy:
Consider we just ended the law banning teaching blacks to read and write.
One leader notices what a huge disadvantage this puts blacks at and encourages a program targeting blacks to bring their literacy levels closer to whites.
Another leader wants the votes of the white people and tells them how they're getting screwed by that program.
'There are still white children who are illiterate - as long as there is one, there should be no preferential treatment based on race! Vote against blacks screwing whites!'
That's the same basic idea - one injustice can need a remedy that benefits the people harmed by the injustice.
Because of a long history of discrimination, generations of blacks were forced into low-paying work, are now hugely poorer as a group, were denied school, and much more.
This is merely a TEMPORARY measure to say 'they are hugely denied opportunity because of past wrong and this is to correct some of that harm'.
It's moving towards equality of opporunity - not going anywhere past the group who was harmed getting closer to equal opportunity, towards 'preferential treatment'.
In fact it's just obscene for the people who have advantages because of the discrimination today benefiting their families, to whine about the people who are harmed.
Do I need to post charts again with the results the inequality causes today?
No one is saying 'have affirmative action to the point of equal outcomes'. It's a much more limited program than that.
But the peopel who like the race-based advantages are going to keep the excuses coming demanding it be protected, hiding behind the lie it's 'the same as racism'.