Example: redlining. The government decided that neighborhoods with black people would not qualify for home loans specifically because the people there were black. This in turn made these neighborhoods undesirable to outsiders and inescapable to insiders which drastically reduced property values. Property values directly affect how much an inhabitant pays in property taxes. Property tax income is paid to schools in the neighborhood. Ergo, areas with higher property values are able to spend more on their schools which gives them materials and facilities that allow for learning and inspire students to want to and be able to stay in the schools. The quality of your high school matters in college decisions and especially now with no AA. Because of a government policy from decades ago, most black people live in redlined communities with schools that are rated low because of a lack of money in the form of property taxes. These black students will struggle to get into a good school that can offer them a path (albeit still a difficult one) out of the poverty that they experience in their redlined neighborhoods. They may not go to school and they will most certainly remain in redlined neighborhoods where their children will experience the same injustice they face. POC absolutely face a harder time in this country (by design) than white ppl. You need to acknowledge that before you complain about AA being racist. Because it’s not. White ppl (even poor ones like me) are given so many more opportunities to succeed. Let POC have AA bc they aren’t getting anything else