I think it's excellent that you, a commenter on HN, understand that important contributions can come from all parts of society. I really wish that understanding

I think it's excellent that you, a commenter on HN, understand that important contributions can come from all parts of society. I really wish that understanding was shared more broadly across this whole country. Unfortunately I've been alive long enough to see that it really is not. I suspect that more people felt as you do, we wouldn't have so many barriers to opportunity for kids. Moreover, the existence of those barriers wouldn't be so disproportionately correlated to race and place-of-birth.