Harvard admitted its first student in 1636, but its first black student wasn’t admitted until 1847. That’s roughly a 211 year disadvantage for black and brown people. To overturn affirmative action is to allow the sins our past to continue to permeate and poison our future.

Why are you taking your clothes off while you do this

We agree on a lot. But this one was a swing and miss for me. So, black folks don’t have resources? We don’t have access to internet, books, teachers, free tutors? So bad choices by parents, should be offset by government, because black folks don’t have resources?

Let’s correct injustice with more injustice. Brilliant.

Bad take. You're arguing that present day discrimination cures past discrimination. The past is the past and there is no possible way to make amends for things that happened to people that lived at that time. They are dead. The best thing you can do is give future generations an

Bro wants extra credit for being black…ain’t that some shit. As a Mexican American, I work for mine brotha, try infusing that into your community instead of admonishing the true pursuit of equality - Eli.

So you don't think you can get in on merit?

Emmanuel: Were you alive from 1636 to 1847?? If not, your argument is 176 years old, meaning it's well past it's sell by date.....

It is not "our past", Emmanuel. Your family was not here in 1636 nor in 1847 or in 1947. It is also not your family's blood and sweat in the building's structure.

Where are you getting this “we” from?

love ya, Manny, but this is so off. tell people they can make it. stop perpetuating victim theory. anyone, of any race, can succeed.