During my grad school years, whilst teaching young students at a
university in Washington, DC, I would sometimes bump up against a young
(invariably white, male) conservative who expressed concern that only
minorities could get good jobs, or get into good schools these days,
because of affirmative action or less formal P.C. sentiments. I would
generally raise an eyebrow an invite the whiner to take a walk down to
Capitol Hill at quitting time and watch the folks walk to the subway.
Capitol Hill was, and is, virtually brimming over with straight, white
guys with thinning hair. Their interns were and are the young white
boys and girls born to their law partners and golf buddies. In other
words, the Hill was swarming with the beneficiaries of white
affirmative action.That bastion of the old white guy,
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