Apparently you think advocating for choices to be made on merit is advocating for maintaining the status quo. But the history of the US, indeed the world, is that those choices were never made on merit. Specifically, black people of merit were often discriminated against in the history of the US. Also Chinese, Japanese, Irish, and many others. Nobody here is advocating for that or has ever advocated for that. Except perhaps those advocating for race based policies and laws. Changing the race to be discriminated against does not eradicate the fact that some are discriminated against.

If you think I am advocating for that, you live in more of a dream world than even I thought you did.

In fact, what I advocate is just the opposite. Let all people live in a world where their race is not a factor in the decisions that affect their lives. Whether they be black, Asian, NA, or even white.

In a way, I just want a world where there is no double standard. The policies you advocate are the definition of double (or triple or more) standards.

We have anti-discrimination laws. What is wrong with enforcing those to take care of the remnants of racism that exist on the individual level? Anti-discrimination laws, done properly and evenly enforced, protect everybody from racism. Everybody.

I cannot see how a policy that treats white farmers different from black farmers is any different from a reverse Jim Crow law. If you can see the difference, please explain it to me. I have asked anybody to explain to me how laws like this fight racism. At best, they fight the effects of long-ago racism - but by being racist themselves. Nobody has stepped forward with an explanation of how these racially based laws are going to eradicate racism, and I thought that was the goal, not getting even. Maybe I am wrong in assuming that is the goal.

Since we are on goals, I have always assumed that once the goal of a colorblind society was met, the need for these racially based policies would go away, but I see no way for these policies to ever go away. Do you? Paraphrasing Numbers, if you have no goal, then you will never stop.