We can look back to the 70s when black americans were legally prohibited from certain jobs. Or prohibited from from owning property in most areas.
In the 80s we have plenty of lawsuits demonstrating the black americans were routinely denied home loans because they were black.
Most of the Ivy League colleges denied entry to black americans no matter the quality of their character. This racism remains entrenched, and leaves a lasting legacy of bias through legacy admissions, formalized hereditary entrance: the original positive discrimination.
The legacy admissions also provide the formal evidence of the original claim: people who's admission to a good school has nothing to do with their skill, merely being white allowing their family to have attended any school.
We can look back to the 70s when black americans were legally prohibited from certain jobs. Or prohibited from from owning property in most areas.
In the 80s we have plenty of lawsuits demonstrating the black americans were routinely denied home loans because they were black.
Most of the Ivy League colleges denied entry to black americans no matter the quality of their character. This racism remains entrenched, and leaves a lasting legacy of bias through legacy admissions, formalized hereditary entrance: the original positive discrimination.
The legacy admissions also provide the formal evidence of the original claim: people who's admission to a good school has nothing to do with their skill, merely being white allowing their family to have attended any school.