article_snippet.sent: It's not just a matter of what individual applicants "deserve.
article_snippet.sent: Like others who've recently been exposed for falsely claiming racial identities — including putative presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who registered himself as "Hispanic" on a 2009 voter form, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was excoriated during her campaign for having claimed Native American ancestry in the past
article_snippet.sent: Race isn't just about color or blood; Race is about the collective experiences and inherited cultural context and present-day condition of a community of people.
article_snippet.sent: Many of the markers of race are persistently corrosive; others are deeply painful.
article_snippet.sent: Affirmative action programs are a means of redress for these awful realities of our nation's history; an imperfect one, but necessary.
article_snippet.sent: There are some fields where the imbalances might never correct some fields where the imbalances might never correct themselves on their own on some fields where the imbalances might never correct themselves on their own own.
highlights_snippet.sent: That's offensive and ironic, considering that minorities experience many disadvantages .