Inequality is systematic and generational, "because no student today had to live through a century of inequality" is a ridiculous statement when we still have m

Inequality is systematic and generational, "because no student today had to live through a century of inequality" is a ridiculous statement when we still have major problems with inequality in schooling, health care, criminal justice, the list goes on and on. Just because things are better than they were 50 years ago doesn't erase 300 years of history. There is no such thing as a completely "blind" process that can somehow "measures the potential of a candidate" outside that candidate's socioeconomic history and outside the history of inequality in the US. It's the dream of a pure meritocracy which is completely impossible in reality.