Maybe then you will realize that guns are not a symbol of death as Bjerga suggests. I am a white American male of Irish descent. And I, like Sykora, I assume, am a beneficiary of the white male privilege in this nation. Even more profound is that white males make up only 33 percent of the population. All of these statistics are recent, which means affirmative action has not worked well.
Affirmative action attempts to correct underrepresentations in society.
It is not the mere filling of quotas, but rather the extended representation into the upper management of society's institutions. Mr. Sykora is pretty much assured of a job when he graduates, and not because he is in the Institute of Technology, but rather because of his ethnicity. We need to change the odds to make them a little more fair, and that is what affirmative action has tried to do, and that is what we must improve upon.