And we SHOULD discriminate. We should ALL strive to be as bright, competent, capable, skilled, able, and qualified to achieve our goals as we can. And the brightest, most competent, most capable, most skilled, most able, and most qualified should be moved to the head of the line in all things--otherwise we diminish us all.
As I previously posted, I believe it was Walter Williams who said that the opportunity to try should be equal for everybody. And we, as Americans, have done a very good job in breaking down all institutional barriers that prevent anybody from trying. We have done a very good job in providing the opportunities. And the government can help with that. But nobody, not the government nor anybody else, can make somebody seize the opportunity that is available to them.
As Rocky Balboa meant in his speech: the person who believes he/she is inferior, no good, not capable, or chooses to succumb to victimization instead of rising above it, is doomed to be inferior, incapable, a victim their whole life. So a government who constantly tells a whole demographic of people that they are doomed to be inferior, incapable, victims unless big brother helps them out, has consigned those people to inferiority, inability, and victimization for generations. It is criminal. It should not stand. And if you are going to demand reparations from anybody, demand them from those who demand that we continue those indefensible policies.