You're missing the point, Strike. If YOU weren't able to get a job because you're a stinking Celt, Welsh, Confederate... and more importantly an entire group of people likewise couldn't make headway, then I'd agree with you.

I don't agree with Affirmative Action or direct reparations, unless as in the case of the Maori, it's to honor a treaty. It's not equality, it's a vote-garnering fake-cure, and that's not what I'm talking about. But when you look and see 40% of Native Americans are illiterate and 70% question the value of an education (numbers created for the purpose of a hypothetical point, I have no idea what they truly are), primarily because it was by sending their kids to school in the past that cost them their language (Native children were beaten for speaking in any tongue but English) then yeah, we should stop and see what we can do to encourage education among Native Americans to counteract the affects of our past 'education'.

Make sense?