"I have known people like Claudine Gay my entire life and they are the reason why I never checked the black box on college and employment applications. If I had, I would not be a free individual today. As a child, I was fascinated by the story of my paternal grandparents's interracial marriage in 1944 in segregated Chicago.... Today, the focus has been on how Gay hurt Asians and Jews, but it can never be forgotten that people like her hurt blacks far more and for such a sustained period of time, affecting multiple generations."
Claudine Gay and Clarence Thomas appear to have benefited from affirmative action. Dick Cheney got into Yale because, in 1959, there was a movement for geographical diversity. Cheney partied with the football team and flunked out. Prez. Gay and Prof./Sen. Liz presumably leveraged their ancestors’ minority status to grab their brass (gold?) rings. LBJ and JFK apparently rigged votes in Texas. Ronald Reagan was a union organizer and Dick Nixon played Joe McCarthy to beat Helen Douglas in 1950 and parlayed that to VP and President. Who thinks Pritzker belongs in Springfield or D.C.? Diogenes’ search continues.
Claudine Gay and Clarence Thomas appear to have benefited from affirmative action. Dick Cheney got into Yale because, in 1959, there was a movement for geographical diversity. Cheney partied with the football team and flunked out. Prez. Gay and Prof./Sen. Liz presumably leveraged their ancestors’ minority status to grab their brass (gold?) rings. LBJ and JFK apparently rigged votes in Texas. Ronald Reagan was a union organizer and Dick Nixon played Joe McCarthy to beat Helen Douglas in 1950 and parlayed that to VP and President. Who thinks Pritzker belongs in Springfield or D.C.? Diogenes’ search continues.
Non-working link a true fact. Concur.
Fixed it: https://www.newsweek.com/claudine-gay-why-i-never-checked-black-box-opinion-1851411#:~:text=By%20checking%20the%20%22black%22%20box%2C%20I%20was%20being%20asked,redemption%20through%20higher%20enrollment%20numbers.
Article link doesn’t work