they may very well be good candidates for the position. Unfortunately, affirmative action hurts them as others assume they got in only because they were black and wouldn’t have gotten in if they were white or Asian. Unless we have race-blind admissions/selection there won’t be any clarity on this issue.
I mean you can’t have something like this:
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And then expect the black students to be treated with the same level of respect as the white and Asian students. Just like you can’t put on stilts and then expect that others admire you for being tall.
the Hey Arnold analogy is a limited one and stops when the teams play each other. Obviously blacks and whites aren’t playing against each other. It’s meant to highlight the absurdity of using certain characteristics to divide people (eg race or grade level) and ignore others that are more prescient (eg age or socioeconomic factors).
The older 4th grader should play with kids his own age just like how many youth sports are organized (under 17’s, under 14’s, etc)
the problem for the Woke crowd is they can’t display true diversity and hardship in an online photo to get likes and retweets like they can just posting a picture of majority black faces