I felt pressure to declare my minority status on college applications and ‘get the upper hand.’ But I refused to be currency in someone else’s power game.
What a great essay! You've done a great service for our country in making your eloquent argument. I hope a great many people will have a chance to read it and think about it.
Eli - Huge thanks for this super powerful article! Since the day I learned about the concept of quotas— the % targets for college acceptance, recruiting, elections, promotions, etc.- I hope that one day we will start challenging the DEI ideology and its impact…. Kudos to you and Bari for doing this!
It was so shocking how quickly our society adapted to a box & % culture and how little it was challenged. What is even more terrible is that we've become somewhat accustomed to it…. It echoes so much with what my parents shared about their time in USSR - something I never imagined we would witness in the free world…
Steve ... you're arguing nature v. nurture. The bottom line is you can't separate the two. I'm sure you've heard the saying that it takes a community to raise a child. It cuts both ways.
Note to everybody...tell your congressional representatives to stop sending public money to any university that supports antisemitism...this abomination has got to stop...the only thing that will is to starve them of money...g
Gosh that hit home, made me emotional reading this Mr Steele. We'll always have choices in life, your Grandfathers courage is what you've inherited. May your life be blessed.
Inspiring article. Im tired of all the racist woke radicals from left. We should embrace a colorblind perspective where merit is the guiding force for achievements, hiring and promotions. Inequality exists and should be resolved through targeted measures to improve early education and a sense of community.
I'm no fan of Clarence Thomas, but there is at least one opinion of his that made sense to me.
The Supreme Court Justice is no fan of affirmative action, though he was a beneficiary. His comments on the subject were telling. He's been frustrated by many who see his success primarily "as a result of affirmative action" and not as a result of his own intellect and hard work.
He's spent a lifetime here people looked at him as if he was granted a pass into higher and higher levels in the legal system -- and it was all because of affirmative action. He resented it. I get it.
I get why someone wants to be given credit for the merit in their work instead of their skin color. Whether it is a Supreme Court Justice or a filmmaker/writer.
I adore you, Eli Steele. You must bring intense “nachas” and pride to your parents and grandparents. You have never let anything other than your merit define who you are and you are a role model to anyone navigating this complicated identity landscape today. Thanks for sharing this. Thanks for helping us understand the rot underlying the elite institutions.
To think nothing that the disservice of “checking the black box” does to POC in positions of power. In other words, despite their legitimate merits, society will often be looking at those individuals sideways….”mm-hmm, obviously affirmative action”.
For that alone, POC should never buy into the trap as it does the entire race affected a huge disservice.
What a great essay! You've done a great service for our country in making your eloquent argument. I hope a great many people will have a chance to read it and think about it.
Eli - Huge thanks for this super powerful article! Since the day I learned about the concept of quotas— the % targets for college acceptance, recruiting, elections, promotions, etc.- I hope that one day we will start challenging the DEI ideology and its impact…. Kudos to you and Bari for doing this!
It was so shocking how quickly our society adapted to a box & % culture and how little it was challenged. What is even more terrible is that we've become somewhat accustomed to it…. It echoes so much with what my parents shared about their time in USSR - something I never imagined we would witness in the free world…
Steve ... you're arguing nature v. nurture. The bottom line is you can't separate the two. I'm sure you've heard the saying that it takes a community to raise a child. It cuts both ways.
Note to everybody...tell your congressional representatives to stop sending public money to any university that supports antisemitism...this abomination has got to stop...the only thing that will is to starve them of money...g
Gosh that hit home, made me emotional reading this Mr Steele. We'll always have choices in life, your Grandfathers courage is what you've inherited. May your life be blessed.
Respect!
Inspiring article. Im tired of all the racist woke radicals from left. We should embrace a colorblind perspective where merit is the guiding force for achievements, hiring and promotions. Inequality exists and should be resolved through targeted measures to improve early education and a sense of community.
Eli, you may have the greatest X-handle of all-time, “hebro”!
I'm no fan of Clarence Thomas, but there is at least one opinion of his that made sense to me.
The Supreme Court Justice is no fan of affirmative action, though he was a beneficiary. His comments on the subject were telling. He's been frustrated by many who see his success primarily "as a result of affirmative action" and not as a result of his own intellect and hard work.
He's spent a lifetime here people looked at him as if he was granted a pass into higher and higher levels in the legal system -- and it was all because of affirmative action. He resented it. I get it.
I get why someone wants to be given credit for the merit in their work instead of their skin color. Whether it is a Supreme Court Justice or a filmmaker/writer.
Best of luck to Eli Steele.
I think you are the future. We are all mutts.
You, indeed, are a very free man. I am very proud to have served in some really shitty places in support of People like you.
Eli
Never ever check boxes.
It only means enslavement, category assignment
Bravo!
I adore you, Eli Steele. You must bring intense “nachas” and pride to your parents and grandparents. You have never let anything other than your merit define who you are and you are a role model to anyone navigating this complicated identity landscape today. Thanks for sharing this. Thanks for helping us understand the rot underlying the elite institutions.
To think nothing that the disservice of “checking the black box” does to POC in positions of power. In other words, despite their legitimate merits, society will often be looking at those individuals sideways….”mm-hmm, obviously affirmative action”.
For that alone, POC should never buy into the trap as it does the entire race affected a huge disservice.
How can a group be more racist than to say "those people have to have help in order to succeed."
??
democrats are racist in every single direction and they always were.
God bless this author!