Yup. And when you fail to get a job for which you are qualified or secure a rental or a purchase of a house for which you have sufficient income, or, if you do commit a crime, when you are given a harsher sentence than your white neighbor for the same act, you will just have to go back the the ghetto and realize that you just did not try hard enough since that is just history that is behind you and has no bearing on your life.
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This discussion is not helped by polemics that ignore reality.
Fun fact: Haitians are overrepresented the ranks of physicians. It seems that at least one black ethnic group is having no problem getting through medical school and getting into the profession. Black Africans are even more overrepresented.
This is significant enough, IMO, that it kinda blows out the water the idea that you will be held back by how people perceive you by your skin color.
The over-representation does not speak at all to the discrimination Blacks face based on skin color. Haitian-Americans are voluntary immigrants who are often only allowed to come here because they have already specialized skills, and/or are only allowed to stay only if they continue their education. Nobody would say Black people can never succeed because of discrimination, but rather that discrimination often greatly hinders success.
nm, thinking better of it now
magellan01, there is now a thread open where your comment woud actually be appropriate.
SCOTUS rules States can ban race-based AA
(Wrong, of course, but appropriate. 
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The question is what will benefit you most? And I contend that my approach will allow an individual to do better in life than focusing on the injustices, real as they may be.
But please do explain how in an OP entitled, “Let’s Debate Affirmative Action”, my post is off-point?
More specifically, how is it less relevant here than in a thread entitled, “SCOTUS rules States can ban race-based AA”?
Or are you just trying out those new-fangled rules of debate those cool Black kids are using?
I am basing my view on the actual content of the OPs and the responses to them. If you read Chieif Pedant’s actual OP in the thread he opened this morning, you will find that your post, here, comes much closer to discussing the topic he is discussing, regardless of the titles given to one thread or another.
On an individual basis, that is probably true. At a societal level, someone has to tackle this issue or we just live with ongoing injustice.