Although hopefully becoming weaker over time, people still hold biases against different groups.
Until these biases don’t exist it makes sense to be aware of them and try to correct
Affirmative action is racist in nature.
A good test is to replace the race with “white European”. And if the statement offends it’s racist.
Then what do you suggest to change this situation ?
I am not super comfortable with counsious positive discrimination as a momentary tool to correct a discriminatory situation (with negative impact on the whole society), but it is hard to imagine solutions without using this tool.
There’s Plenty of VCs who came from poverty, who’s parents came from poverty, or who’s grandparents came from poverty.
When looking at that Kind of timescale from 1920s till now, I don’t believe the system has had enough time. Civil rights, racial rights, and gender rights are relatively new concepts.
My belief is over the next 30-50 years the forces of market capitalism will address the issue.