Friend making normal wages- “no worries bro, I’ll cover this one. You got next!”
Friend who works in tech making over 300k- “can you Venmo me $3.74 for the sip of my drink you took?”
everyone i know in their late 20s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 20s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 23-year-old brains in bodies approaching 30
I wonder if people even remember that affirmative action came about because minorities weren’t getting into schools *despite* their achievements. They were already better than their best and still weren’t getting accepted
Meanwhile, I went to an Ivy-League school with kids who had entire buildings named after someone in their family.
Yeeeah…Guess who doesn’t have access to generational wealth like that…
Slave-descended Black people like me.
We are 400 years behind you.
You are 400 years ahead of us.
I wasn’t the one who got the handout.
#AffirmativeAction
If SCOTUS was serious about their ludicrous “colorblindness” claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged.
70% of Harvard’s legacy applicants are white. SCOTUS didn’t touch that - which would have impacted them and their patrons.