The root of the problem started more than two hundreds years ago when slaves were brought over from Africa. It started from the social, economic, and educational deprivation that has existed for more than two centuries. People who have been disadvantaged for years need help, but help at the starting line-up as proposed by President Johnson is help that came too late. I remember a TV documentary several years ago that followed a group of inner city minority kindergartners through high school. Of a group of thirty-some children, many dropped out, and many were in jail, a few died, and less than a handful made it through high school.
Affirmative action helps mostly the few who have made it through high school and beyond.
But what about the much bigger group that didn t make it. These children were born with shackles. Many had close to zero chance of making it in this world. Many were born out of wedlock, whose mothers were single, uneducated, unemployed, and have virtually no chance of getting out of the inner city ghetto. These children deserve to be taken off the shackles way before the starting line-up.