In college, I made a lot of money working side jobs, especially in the spring and summer. From April through September, I would mow tiny lawns in Annapolis and get $20 (more than $37 in today’s dollars) for a lawn that took me about 30 minutes from start to finish.
What made this more valuable per hour was when my customers’ next-door neighbors would hire me — thus creating efficiencies, as I could do just one 20-minute round-trip bike ride, use fewer rakes, have a backup mower right next door in an emergency, etc.
So if I benefited from white privilege but think it’s bad, does that make me ungrateful or a hypocrite?Does anyone believe that the color of his skin was not a factor in GHW Bush’s appointment of Clarence Thomas to fill the seat vacated by Thurgood Marshall? He benefitted from this affirmative action and accepted the nomination. Then he killed affirmative action for others. https://t.co/MyNfbM8Xoj
We can debate whether Thomas benefited from affirmative action. Yes, he was accepted to Yale Law School in 1971 when the school had racial quotas, but we don’t know if he would have gotten in absent those quotas. Yes, he was nominated to replace a black former justice, Thurgood Marshall, but note that when Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson into a slot he had set aside only for a black woman, the major left-leaning media treated it as contentious to call this “affirmative action.
But to point out the illogic of Thomas's opponents, let’s grant, arguendo, the Corn and Dyson assertion that Thomas benefited from affirmative action. So what?
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