Ben! on Nostr: I'll admit that it took longer into adulthood than I would have liked to get on board ...

I'll admit that it took longer into adulthood than I would have liked to get on board with affirmative action. I was a white working class Southerner living in a very conservative suburb in Appalachia, so when people like Jim Webb talked about making it class-based instead of race, I listened.

I was a fucking moron. Now more than ever we need AA & other such programs to maintain a basic fairness in educational opportunities for people of color, it is absolutely vital and to gut that is criminal