I think this is a painfully simplistic way of looking at privilege. The idea that every white person is more privileged than I am simply because their skin is lighter is both wrong and insulting. Being black is not a curse.

If you found a white person with exactly my wealth and intelligence and social skill and relative attractiveness and family connections and life ambitions and home environment growing up and who lived in exactly the same neighbourhood as I did, yes, they'd have an advantage over me because they were white. In fact, it would have to be a he too. So he'd have an advantage over me because he was white.

But tweak any of these variables and the picture becomes immediately less clear. The idea that black skin automatically puts me at a disadvantage against every single white person is some good old-fashioned racism.

Also, I didn't say that affirmative action students must come from the very poorest backgrounds. No straw-manning please. I said that it's a problem if fully 71% of affirmative action students come from the most privileged backgrounds.

I actually wrote about the Georgetown law professor recently. It's so surreal that her comments are so blindly viewed as racist when nobody has made the effort to find out if they're true. And if they are true (I don't see why she'd lie) why they're true. If black students are consistently struggling in her class, let's figure out why that is.

Maybe she's an awful racist. In which case, sure, fire her. But maybe it's because Georgetown's admission process is taking in kids who aren't able to handle the workload. Maybe there are other factors working against black kids in the school. Firing her for simply pointing to the problem is insane.