Two weeks ago, my partner, Susan, underwent major surgery for breast cancer. Happily, the tumor was caught thus early (via routine breast ) that it was barely a Phase 1 cancers. The doctor was convinced that the cancer had been totally eradicated.
At the same time, my partner had both breast reconstruction and interventional surgery at a private clinic with a focus on breast reconstruction and breast reconstruction. It is a prestigious health facility that is operated by a doctor who only uses the best money can buy.
In mild of that, after the operation, I asked my wife if she’d had a chance to join the doctor. ( We had previously met both surgeons. )
The choice of doctor was crucial because the combined surgeries do continue about seven days. Knowing the quality of doctors at that office, I assumed that whoever the doctor was, she ( all the employees is feminine ) would be among the best in Los Angeles, if not in America. And really, my wife could hardly speak very enough about the anesthesiologist.
My family was not only broad awake and alert almost immediately after the operation ended, but she was also able to change my column only two hours after the operation was over because the amount of anesthesia was thus carefully chosen and given because, in contrast to her past experiences with surgery, which left her drowsy and weary for the rest of the day and immediately.
This world-class anesthesiologist was a black woman, which made me consider affirmative action. Had I had any suspicion that this was a clinic that engaged in affirmative action, I would have wondered about this anesthesiologist: Was she chosen, at least in part, because she was black? I had no doubt, however, that anyone they hired would be chosen solely because she is a top-notch oncologist, plastic surgeon, or anesthesiologist because of the nature of the clinic.
How can anyone who cares about any minority advocate for affirmative action in good conscience? Any member of the affirmed group will always have a cloud hanging over them wherever there is affirmative action, is n’t it obvious?
Given their long history of discrimination, I argued from the beginning of affirmative action that, although black people deserved special consideration in hiring and acceptance in colleges, affirmative action would only harm them.
And, indeed, that is precisely what has happened. Positive psychology has been a disaster for black people and society as a whole. For instance, the fact that many K-12 schools fail to give black students a solid educational foundation is masked by lowering standards in order to attract more black students to elite colleges, where black students disproportionately drop out of programs because they are simply not academically prepared.
Black students at elite colleges are viewed with suspicion because of their academic excellence or primarily because of their color, which is just as devastating. Affirmative action renders such suspicion inevitable.
Imagine then how you would feel as a black student at a prestigious university, knowing how much everyone thought of you, especially if you were talented, diligent, and deserved to be there.
It’s difficult to imagine that white people who advocate for affirmative action actually care about black people. Like most “progressive” positions, it seems that the primary aim of holding such positions is not to actually do good, but to feel good.
Progressives have no choice but to respond when confronted with this challenge to affirmative action. That’s because there , is , no response.
Instead, they point to white students who have been accepted into prestigious universities either because of their parents ‘ involvement in the institution or because their families have made a significant financial contribution to the institution. This was the headline of a recent article in the left-wing Guardian newspaper:” Affirmative action is over in the United States, but only for Black people: Do n’t worry, privileged white students can still rely on their parents ‘ money and connections to get into Harvard. Yay”!
That assertion is undoubtedly accurate, but it does not negate the importance of the affirmative action cloud that looms over black students at world-class universities.
If all Harvard students whose parents ‘ money and connections helped them get into the program were recognizable, they would have the same affirmative action cloud hang over them. This is easily demonstrated. Imagine that every student who had parental influence had to wear a badge that read,” Legacy Admission” or” My Parents Are Big Donors.” How would they be regarded? That badge would be considered to have black skin.
People will begin to question whether a person is capable when they learn that a group has been favored thanks to affirmative action.
That’s why Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines, is such a fool in announcing that half the enrollment of United’s pilot school will be reserved for women and people of color.
He has made it clear to passengers that they will begin to wonder how capable their black or female pilot is. which is currently not the case. No one considers whether their pilot is black or female. We all assume that they were chosen on the merit and are therefore entirely capable.
Just as my wife did when she met her black anesthesiologist—because the clinic does n’t practice affirmative action.
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