A lot of meat in those observations..

A lot of meat in those observations, and I'll attempt to sandwich it in this reply..

First, @Distant Lover , since I interpreted your reply as the most presumptuous. The flaw and fallacy of 'affirmative action' is NOT the inclusion and diversity, it's that the "inclusion" is more adaptation and morphing assimilation which ignores the aesthetics of the candidate's background, believing by the "benefactors"-patronizingly, and maybe paternalistically-that the "candidate's" goals and purpose are for the same tangible and intangible aesthetic means and ends as the (so-called) "host", who continues blithely in their cultural zeitgeist,  as if they had NOTHING to learn from the recipient of their largess. The  candidate now confronts a job that is essentially incongruous to their own ideal[istic] and admittedly naive expectations. They strive in their now self-imposed pressure, performing outside or below standards and/or decorum      that leads to observations and comments, such as yours.

For @ace's n 8's , your subject is one who's reconciled (aka, abandoned his cultural background) to accept and conform to having 'made it' in the world     as a Black/POC skinned, white behavioral masked operative, who for the  white   environment is the example of of a successful cohesion with the    homilies of the 'melting-pot'-bootstrap success. One only has to point out         Bill Cosby, Herman Cain, and OJ as high profile minorities whose fate         came from the 'means of entitlement' they presumed would be theirs    -immunity from what they had culturally estranged themselves.

The ACLU anecdote is not totally surprising, since the predominant          cultural ethos of "moral flexibility" in one's business-for-the-sake-of       business is 'what built this country'.

For we whose progenitors, if not ourselves, were the indifferently abused as collateral damage in the way of the path of the 'Manifest Destiny' that         'made this country great', face the ethical and moral dilemma of wanting         the 'apple of desire' at the expense of the physiological or psychological       damage and scars we hope don't become our fate.

[In full-disclosure, though I was anticipated and expected to be a conforming  role model of AfAm cohesion to the mores of my Ivy League college by the school and my parents, who'd achieved, greatly, within the then confines of segregation and the later "liberalization" for aspiring decorum-abiding Negroes. Mostly by circumstance (#36 in the 1969 Draft Lottery), but by
mid-winter of 1970 I saw it would be a cruel joke on my life, if I WASN'T         of a more contrarian, counter-cultural ethos for myself. It's an economic   sacrifice of security, conveniences, and comforts only a few could legally and ethically navigate. The temptations for either thinking oneself a 'sell-out' or being a scofflaw, petty criminal, at the least, was/is always there for the experience of wanting to have 'a taste of the apple' of ethical betrayal.] 

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A lot of meat in those observations, and I'll attempt to sandwich it in this reply..

First, @Distant Lover , since I interpreted your reply as the most presumptuous. The flaw and fallacy of 'affirmative action' is NOT the inclusion and diversity, it's that the "inclusion" is more adaptation and morphing assimilation which ignores the aesthetics of the candidate's background, believing by the "benefactors"-patronizingly, and maybe paternalistically-that the "candidate's" goals and purpose are for the same tangible and intangible aesthetic means and ends as the (so-called) "host", who continues blithely in their cultural zeitgeist, as if they had NOTHING to learn from the recipient of their largess. The candidate now confronts a job that is essentially incongruous to their own ideal[istic] and admittedly naive expectations. They strive in their now self-imposed pressure, performing outside or below standards and/or decorum that leads to observations and comments, such as yours.

For @ace's n 8's , your subject is one who's reconciled (aka, abandoned his cultural background) to accept and conform to having 'made it' in the world as a Black/POC  skinned, white behavioral masked operative, who for the white environment is the example of of a successful cohesion with the homilies of the 'melting-pot'-bootstrap success. One only has to point out Bill Cosby, Herman Cain, and OJ as high profile minorities whose fate came from the 'means of entitlement' they presumed would be theirs-immune from what they had culturally estranged themselves.

The ACLU anecdote is not totally surprising, since the  predominant cultural ethos of "moral flexibility" in one's business-for-the-sake-of business is 'what built this country'.

For we whose progenitors, if not ourselves, were the  indifferently abused as collateral damage in the way of the path of  the 'Manifest Destiny' that 'made this country great', face the ethical and moral dilemma of wanting the 'apple of desire' at the expense of the physiological or psychological damage and scars we hope don't become our fate.

[In full-disclosure, though I was anticipated and expected to be a conforming role model of AfAm cohesion to the mores of my Ivy League college by the school and my parents, who'd achieved, greatly, within the then confines of segregation and the later "liberalization" for aspiring decorum-abiding Negroes. Mostly by circumstance (#36 in the 1969 Draft Lottery), but by

mid-winter of 1970 I saw it would be a cruel joke on my life, if I WASN'T of a more contrarian, counter-cultural ethos for myself. It's an economic sacrifice of security, conveniences, and comforts only a few could legally and ethically navigate.  The temptations for either thinking oneself a 'sell-out' or being a scofflaw, petty criminal, at the least, was/is always there for the experience of wanting to have 'a taste of the apple' of ethical betrayal.]

A lot of meat in those observations, and I'll attempt to sandwich it in this reply..

First, @Distant Lover , since I interpreted your reply as the most presumptuous. The flaw and fallacy of 'affirmative action' is NOT the inclusion and diversity, it's that the "inclusion" is more adaptation and morphing assimilation which ignores the aesthetics of the candidate's background, believing by the "benefactors"-patronizingly, and maybe paternalistically-that the "candidate's" goals and purpose are for the same tangible and intangible aesthetic means and ends as the (so-called) "host", who continues blithely in their cultural zeitgeist, as if they had NOTHING to learn from the recipient of their largess. The candidate now confronts a job that is essentially incongruous to their own ideal[istic] and admittedly naive expectations. They strive in their now self-imposed pressure, performing outside or below standards and/or decorum that leads to observations and comments, such as yours.

For @ace's n 8's , your subject is one who's reconciled (aka, abandoned his cultural background) to accept and conform to having 'made it' in the world as a Black/POC  skinned, white behavioral masked operative, who for the white environment is the example of of a successful cohesion with the homilies of the 'melting-pot'-bootstrap success. One only has to point out Bill Cosby, Herman Cain, and OJ as high profile minorities whose fate came from the 'means of entitlement' they presumed would be theirs-immune from what they had culturally estranged themselves.

The ACLU anecdote is not totally surprising, since the  predominant cultural ethos of "moral flexibility" in one's business-for-the-sake-of business is 'what built this country'.

For we whose progenitors, if not ourselves, were the  indifferently abused as collateral damage in the way of the path of  the 'Manifest Destiny' that 'made this country great', face the ethical and moral dilemma of wanting the 'apple of desire' at the expense of the physiological or psychological damage and scars we hope don't become our fate.

[In full-disclosure, though I was anticipated and expected to be a conforming role model of AfAm cohesion to the mores of my Ivy League college by the school and my parents, who'd achieved, greatly, within the then confines of segregation and the later "liberalization" for aspiring decorum-abiding Negroes. Mostly by circumstance (#36 in the 1969 Draft Lottery), but by

mid-winter of 1970 I saw it would be a cruel joke on my life, if I WASN'T of a more contrarian, counter-cultural ethos for myself. It's an economic sacrifice of security, conveniences, and comforts only a few could legally and ethically navigate.  The temptations for either thinking oneself a 'sell-out' or being a scofflaw, petty criminal, at the least, was/is always there for the experience of wanting to have 'a taste of the apple' of ethical betrayal.]