Today, white people receive a heavy amount of affirmative action in college admissions. Not only are they playing the system and gaining from unfair practices, but they have successfully pitted Asians and other minorities against each other. It needs to stop.
Before I dive into a thousand words about the whole college admissions debate, I want to be clear about one thing: African Americans deserve affirmative action. This whole fiasco should never have had anything to do with Black people. Yet every time anyone talks about admission rates, the most vitriolic comments are about them, even though they are still the victims of a massive amount of societal injustice and systemic racism that is far higher than anything Asians — or anyone else — faces today.
So, as an Asian, I would never ask us to end affirmative action for the Black community (or the Hispanic and Native communities). In fact, seventy percent of Asian Americans support affirmative action. No, I am asking that we end affirmative action for whites.
What do I mean?
