It is also tearing our country apart. Affirmative Action causes whatever it is that binds US citizens together to break down. For whatever reason I no longer feel any bind to places such as Portland and San Francisco. Key West was heading in that direction last time I visited but was a blast and I want to keep it (for now).

I once worked in Newark for a black dentist whose father had been a dentist and one of my jobs was to bid on “minority medical supply contracts.” My disadvantaged boss made $30,000.00 dollars a month to run a couple of homeless shelters. The State of NJ and/or the Feds gave him the money. How much need or use did he have for Affirmative Action, I will never know. How much friction Affirmative Action has created and how it may have inhibited my success I will never know.

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