I really like Gov. Whitmer, but ... We're looking at white privilege in real time

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But recognize that "qualifications" are merely predictors for how someone might perform a job they've never held before. And understand that elevating one set of predictors over others when certain candidates never had an opportunity to perform those predictors may perpetuate institutional racism.

It's like a college admissions process that gives students extra points because they attended an elite prep school that poor, minority students couldn't get in to. Unless that exclusion is taken into account and equivalent weight given to other attributes and qualifications the low income, minority students bring, the process is grossly unfair. It doesn't mean the white prep school students aren't qualified for and deserving of admission. But for the process to be fair - and very important, to ensure the school doesn't miss out on potentially exceptional students who might slip through the cracks because they couldn't make it into the white prep school bonus pool - the admissions committee must take all of this into account and not make prep school attendance the tie-breaker that puts students over the top.