Redlining, gerrymandering, racial profiling, disparities in school funding, police brutality, water-treatment neglect...these practices disproportionately target majority-BIPOC communities.

I have very nuanced views on reparations or affirmative action. I'd support those policies if they were implemented mindfully. But I oppose the notion of giving a $250,000 check to every Black person descended from slaves...or giving applicants preferences mostly based on the racial category into which they fall.