Are you familiar with the concept of trans-generational trauma?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_trauma
We're not talking about ancient history here. The Jim Crow years were less than 100 years ago. The last reported lynching was in 1979. I am an eighth Cherokee, and a quarter Irish. My parents were dirt poor. There were times we didn't have electricity or running water. I experienced adversity so ugly I still have nightmares, and I still don't have it as bad as someone whose great grandparents were slaves. If someone gave me a scholarship because I was descended from people that had been conquered and enslaved, I wouldn't feel insulted at all. I would take it with a smile on my face, and I would feel good that some attempt had been made to make right something that had gone wrong.
I grew up in a small town in Idaho. There was only one black family there, and they lived there for less than a year before they moved away. When I was 14 I was up early one morning on my paper route, and I saw KKK members conducting a ceremony in full regalia. How can you sit there and say I would be "hard pressed to find a real racist anywhere" after I just posted a thousand stories about racist cops?
funny that that the only other post l look at of yours is the same thing...
paying for college because of past injustice is one thing. I totally agree that giving blacks free college would be a perfect enough form of reparations, but thats not what affirmative action is. Affirmative action artificially inflates education/skill level