Corporate farmers are not stigmatized by huge water giveaways and million-dollar price supports. The citizens of Orange County, a Republican stronghold, seeking a bailout to cover their bankers' gambling losses, are not holding their heads in shame. Its beneficiaries feel no stigma. Only when the beneficiaries of affirmative action are women and people of color is there a stigma. Where there is a no raclsm, or sexism, there is no stigma.
Affirmative action is already part of the fabric of American life.
We are all bound together in a vast network of affirmative action, of mutual support systems we take for granted.