I don’t think King believed that “doing something special” for blacks would necessarily entail sacrificing the interests of non-blacks whether individually or on a group basis. I don’t think King would have approved of sacrificing merit on behalf of racial preferences in hiring or college admissions. I think he was pretty clear on the id…
I don’t think King believed that “doing something special” for blacks would necessarily entail sacrificing the interests of non-blacks whether individually or on a group basis. I don’t think King would have approved of sacrificing merit on behalf of racial preferences in hiring or college admissions. I think he was pretty clear on the ideal of color blindness in such contexts. But I’m no scholar of King and haven’t read everything he wrote or said. One can argue that “doing something special” for one group of people, on whatever basis you define the group, means subtracting from someone else. Zero-sum. But even that can be disputed, I think.
I don’t think King believed that “doing something special” for blacks would necessarily entail sacrificing the interests of non-blacks whether individually or on a group basis. I don’t think King would have approved of sacrificing merit on behalf of racial preferences in hiring or college admissions. I think he was pretty clear on the ideal of color blindness in such contexts. But I’m no scholar of King and haven’t read everything he wrote or said. One can argue that “doing something special” for one group of people, on whatever basis you define the group, means subtracting from someone else. Zero-sum. But even that can be disputed, I think.