assistance. after ward were to, soldiers who came back were given the g.i. bill. they were promised a g.i. bill. they helped get them resettled. when it came to black soldiers, they did not get the jia bill. in fact, the first 3000 that were awarded in mississippi, only to. not 2%, one and two, went to african americans. they get this benefit. the whites were given the. they went to harvard, yale, other colleges and universities. then they pass on all of that in the form of legacies. what happened to the legacy of the black soldier who was in the same foxhole with them? did not get in. what legacy will that soldier pass on to his or her children? that is the fallacy here. what are we doing to correct that? that is what affirmative action
report. forbes cited findings from dig day that showed the fight many companies are still mostly white people, also said in a pew sorry , are still white. so, would you consider forbes be a die initiative? no. i wouldn t consider that. it is not a die in a ship. how would you describe it? i would describe it as a platform when we talk about business, not enough businesses cover the black perspective. with that, we can cover g.i. initiatives but listen, this is still forbes at the end of the day and what forbes is as a magazine. a news magazine. so be covering news items and looking at the g.i. initiatives. not just companies like banks like citibank, or bank of america, but also the nfl and the nba. i come from a sports background so you want to hold them accountable. you want to hold people accountable looking at the dna ships that they promised to the black community and people of color, at the same time doing other things. profiles on black executives that people might not
racism, redlining the g.i. bill, she had, cropping it all in there, and the idea that all of that just goes away, poof, because you somehow hint in your essay that that is part of your story, it can be considered, he is so profoundly insulting that it almost doesn t bear taking seriously. i m also strike about how much of this is deeply personal for clarence tano thomas. there s a reason we went through his history and his distaste for affirmative action is it personally intersects with his own story, the sense of grievance he has and how it s the opposite of what supreme court justice hitters posed to do, make the personal the national. and yet it seems that that s exactly what he has done. who hurt you, bull, is really the bottom line here. this is a man who has been very clear he believes affirmative action is stigmatizing. he says nothing about affirmative bachchan s getting
donald trump the classifies classified documents. you can just sort of do it with your mind. we hope that the colleges figure it out. that s clearly the extent that there is an escape hatch here. i think to melissa s point the utter cynicism of saying that this is what the reconstruction amendments that the radical abolitionists who wrote those amendments were trying to do, the congress that passed, clearly race conscious remedial efforts and the entire history just as jackson s minority dissenting opinion here is a master class on the victory of racism, redlining the g. i. bill, she had, cropping it all in there, and the idea that all of that just goes away, poof,
documents. you can sort of do it with your mind and hope that the colleges figure it out.gu i mean that s clearly to the extent there s an escape hatch here, i guess that s it. but, again, i just think to melissa s point, the utter cynicism of saying, you know, that this is what, you know, the reconstruction amendments that the radical abolitionists who wrote those amendments were trying to do, the congress that passed clearly race conscious remedial efforts and the entire history, justice jackson s minority dissenting opinion here is a master class on the history of racism, red lining, the g.i. bill, getting loans, share cropping. it s all in there, and the idea that all of that just goes away, poof, because if you somehow hint in yourus essay that that part of your t story, it can be considered so profoundly