Mike C. How can there be real equality of opportunity when we know that discrimination based on race continues in lending, law enforcement and criminal justice, and in how communities are planned and zoned? In recent decades past some school systems automatically placed Black students in remedial or "special education" tracks, including transfer from out-of-state with at or above grade level records. I suspect that still occurs in some communities still lurching toward modernity. Skin color is the first thing most of us see and is often followed by automatic assumptions. Race is certainly not the only factor; as much as we like to pretend otherwise, this is a very classist society, and a white person with the wrong tell-tale social markers can be filed under "need not apply". Much of the opportunity I and my husband enjoyed was presented to us rather than "seized" merely because of our father's connections and ability to afford us a experiences that opened doors. While I always vote DEM, I'm not particularly an activist, just honest with myself and others about my life (and old enough to remember what it was like in newly desegregated SC public schools). Generational wealth is a  privilege given rather than earned.

Mike C. How can there be real equality of opportunity when we know that discrimination based on race continues in lending, law enforcement and criminal justice, and in how communities are planned and zoned? In recent decades past some school systems automatically placed Black students in remedial or "special education" tracks, including transfer from out-of-state with at or above grade level records. I suspect that still occurs in some communities still lurching toward modernity. Skin color is the first thing most of us see and is often followed by automatic assumptions. Race is certainly not the only factor; as much as we like to pretend otherwise, this is a very classist society, and a white person with the wrong tell-tale social markers can be filed under "need not apply". Much of the opportunity I and my husband enjoyed was presented to us rather than "seized" merely because of our father's connections and ability to afford us a experiences that opened doors. While I always vote DEM, I'm not particularly an activist, just honest with myself and others about my life (and old enough to remember what it was like in newly desegregated SC public schools). Generational wealth is a  privilege given rather than earned.

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