Reply #18: I hear what you're saying and I think you're getting your points across beautifully

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Thank you for asking these questions.

The resentment would be based in ignorance, but not necessarily racism in the traditional sense of feeling superior to or entitled to. Not any more than the "wealthy elite" example I gave above.

But that "resentment" is based on the idea that well-deserving white folks (who are inherently superior) are being given the short end of the stick in favor of undeserving black folks (who are inherently inferior). Opportunities/advantages are being "taken" from deserving white folks and being given to blacks who don't deserve them.

The "resentment" is still very much mired in the concept of white supremacy upon which this country was built. And this has been going on ever since affirmative action was created in order to correct past discrepancies in which white folks regardless of ability, skill and education were automatically given preferential treatment over people of color, regardless of ability, skill and education.

Of course the biggest irony of all, and one that racist always seem to overlook, is that affirmative action has benefited white women more than any other group.