may disadvantage some individual white people, as a whole, American institutions (including the state) privilege whites over nonwhites.
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it's like adding forces for a high school physics problem. One force, even one force labeled "fed govt" does not outweigh all other forces.
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also I take issue with the notion that AA "disenfranchises" whites. Can you define your use of the term "disenfranchise" for me?
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also as a brief substantiation of "AA does not constitute total of state actions"---for about 35 years FHA loans and GI Bill loans...
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were not available to black people. I don't have an estimate of the wealth accrued to whites during that period, but we do know now...
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for most americans, most of their wealth is in a home, and that median white wealth is some 17 times higher than median black wealth.
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no government program, and certainly not AA, has replicated that differential investment, and lending disparities continue to plague us.
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and I don't mean "black people have bad credit," I mean a borrower in a "black" zipcode with identical creditworthiness gets a higher rate.
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The institutional preference towards whites, state and non-state, in housing alone, dwarfs the money that has been funneled to nonwhites...
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through Affirmative Action programs, which are aimed at proportional representation anyway...
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although in support of AA, there has been a significant drop in the income gap, but nowhere near a similar drop in the wealth gap...
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do we think this could be due to the existence of gov't programs to address income gap (AA) but not wealth gap?
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