Given the human tendency for simple thinking, sensibilities like ours coming from us non-Africans is in the same category as colonialism and slavery. We’re not going to be listened to and in the absence of sufficiently wide-spread support of a given way of thinking, something else prevails. Africa has plenty of crazy and angry and not a lot of calm and sedate.

Affirmative action needs to look for the actually qualified, which requires NOT BEING LAZY and when have you ever seen government anything not be lazy?

Qualified people of any background should be encouraged by affirmative action. Heck, the poor white trash should be told YES YOU CAN and encouraged to try to excel. But we choose our target groups based on our own twisted consciences and political needs. White trash underachievers are not going to get targeted and thanks to opportunism neither will qualified black underachievers.

So we keep getting the unqualified being put in place, specifically NOT JUST because they are of a given target group, but ALSO BECAUSE they are not qualified. It is perversely an important part of affirmative action because when the unqualified fail, it will be predictably blamed on reactionary or recalcitrant enemies of the movement, and used as justification of MORE affirmative action which of course requires MORE power to be allocated to its champions, who most of the time are in the USA white and male.