Why do you think I’m pretending I’m not? The real problem is that you’re implicitly taking the position that aiding specific groups of people is a zero-sum gam

Why do you think I’m pretending I’m not? The real problem is that you’re implicitly taking the position that aiding specific groups of people is a zero-sum game. Should the US government give reparations for what they did to Japanese americans during WWII? Absolutely. Should germany and other european countries give reparations for Jewish families as a result of the holocaust? Absolutely. Do poor white americans from appalachia deserve economic aid from the government after such prolonged disinvestment? Of course. And while it makes sense to offer these groups economic-based college admissions support, it doesn't make sense to do so purely on the basis of ethnicity/race, as those groups demonstrably don't face the same level of institutionalized discrimination as blacks. Though such measures would have been warranted for Jews and Asians for a good part of the 20th century. But guess what—none of these remedies are in conflict with each other. At no point does actively correcting the massive generational wealth and education imbalance that black americans face, take away from correcting what any other group of minoritized people is owed.