American society has historically ordered itself in a way detrimental to minorities generally, and African Americans in particular. From slavery, to laws that disenfranchised Blacks and codified segregation, to the general acceptance of attitudes that discriminated against African Americans, the United States has a lot to answer for. We have made a great deal of progress over the past 75 years eliminating the structural barriers that unfairly prevented minorities from fully accessing the American dream.
Whatever barriers remain must be rooted out once and for all. The most significant among these is an educational system that denies poor children the same access to a quality education as their more affluent peers. If education is the great leveler, school choice is the civil rights issue of our time, yet school choice is fiercely opposed by the Democratic Party for purely political reasons.
Proactive measures to correct past wrongs are still necessary, but such measures must be thoughtfully developed and skillfully implemented. Giving minorities a “hand up and a hand out” of unjust circumstances that society helped to create is nothing more than the moral thing to do. That said, as we strive to create a more “equitable” society for everyone, we must be careful we are not destroying the mechanisms by which economic prosperity is produced.
Corporations are not the evil entities Democrats endlessly tell us they are. That shtick is getting old. If equity is the objective,.