If you remove a band-aid from a wound too soon, it will not heal properly.

For 342 years, white men benefited from playing in a system that limited their only competition to other white men.

Affirmative action was the band-aid put in place by white men to heal a wound that white men caused.

Affirmative action in education is a policy that aims to improve opportunities for groups that have historically been excluded or discriminated against, such as racial minorities and women. President John F. Kennedy initiated it in 1961 to ensure equal employment treatment throughout the government regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin. In 1967 and 1972, it was expanded to include women and college admission.

After a mere 62 years, the Republican President's appointees to SCOTUS decided, in essence, that all was equal now and Affirmative action was no longer needed because it discriminated against other groups.

These Republican appointees would try to justify their decision by bringing up cases where the SCOTUS failed, the Dred Scott decision, and Plessy v. Ferguson. Clarence Thomas, a Republican-appointed Justice of the Court and benefactor of the same Affirmative action policy he ruled against, tried to argue that experts got those cases wrong. What Clarence Thomas fail to mention is that those were white men that got those cases wrong. His omission of all the facts rendered his example

In recent years before the election of Donald Trump as President, there were rare cases of overt racism, such as the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr, here in Texas. Many racist people were not willing to face the consequences of letting their racism be known, so they would practice what I call subtle racism.

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