湾区华少
旧金山湾区工程师，酱油马拉松选手，关心社区问题
作者Jason L. Riley，作家和华尔街日报编辑，职业撰稿人。
“If anything, the evidence shows that racial preferences have coincided with slower black upward mobility. After the University of California system ended its race-conscious admissions policies in the 1990s, black graduation rates rose. A policy intended to increase the size of the black middle class was in practice limiting its growth. It would be difficult to identify a government program coming out of the 1960s that did more to help blacks than what black were doing to help themselves before the program.”
历史上，种族照顾政策的同时，对应着减缓的黑人向上通道。在加州大学在90年代结束了种族照顾政策之后，非裔的毕业率相应提升。种族政策本意推动非裔的中产阶级，但实际上帮了倒忙。自从上世纪60年代以来，很难找到任何一个政府的措施对非裔有真正的帮助，都没有靠自己努力重要。
“It’s a history that seriously undermines the notion that racism is an all-purpose explanation for social inequality, or that activists seldom bring it up.”
即使历史证明种族问题不是造成社会不公平的普适缘由，政治活动家们却极力拒绝承认。
“What affirmative action has succeeded in doing is stoking racial conflict. It keeps race front and center in our policy debates, regardless of relevance. Lagging groups are told that others have gotten ahead at their expense.”
种族照顾带来的是种族之间的冲突。千篇一律的依据种族因素做政策讨论，也不管种族因素是不是问题的症结。他们总是告诉落后的群体，是其他族裔挤压了你们。
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