But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying, "Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please."
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "You are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.
And this is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom, but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity, but human ability; not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
We ARE talking about college admission, aren't we? 你不要偷换概念, when you want to end it across the nation, do you at least carry the history burden with you? Perhaps it has served its course, but it's up to the whole nation to decide, not you. You get one vote.
@Henry Yang 给你友情提供一个素材我单位有俩同事（都是女同胞）一起招进来，一起干了2、3十年，一个非裔（姑且称之为A），一个菲律宾裔（姑且称之为B）。有一天，菲律宾裔的B告诉我说：“我实在受不了A了，成天抱怨这个抱怨那个，觉得整个社会都欠他们的，还动不动就提以前奴隶制的事儿，我有一天实在忍不住了，不得不截了当地对她说'Come on, A, 奴隶制已经过去这么多年了，我从一个身无分文的菲律宾女孩来美闯荡，从未抱怨过啥，现在你我都做祖母了，而且你现在啥都有，能不能就just move on呢？'”据说，说完这个，A闭口不言了。
@Henry Yang 咱们别挑字眼儿了，40+ state still CAN consider race as a factor, 你不是要反对这个吗？ 那就是change law, 大家慢慢work, 通过之前， you don't get to DECIDE it's wrong. You only get to explain your own opinion.
