Blathe,

Indeed, there are many who agree that the imposition of quotas does imply that an individual’s merit may be insufficient for success. Justice Thomas has spoken many times about what he sees as the lingering implication that he and other people only were successful not because they had the necessary talent and drive to succeed, but because they were afforded special treatment by the Federal government.

The difficulty America is faced with is that the legacy of our nation’s racist past is the obvious inequity left between the different racial groups.

Here’s the $64,000 question. “How else to correct the situation?”

Perhaps there are no solutions to the gap – gulf – between the races here in America which will satisfy all sides, merely those that are least inequitable.

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Eudaimonia