There’s one last irony and it’s this: For whatever effort you make and wherever you get yourself, there may be people who will accuse you of having taken shortcuts or of being unworthy of your spot on the hill. They’ll have an arsenal of phrases—affirmative action, or scholarship kid, or gender quota, or diversity hire—and they’ll use them as weapons of disdain. The message is deeply familiar: I don’t see you as being entitled to what you’ve got.
“…affirmative action, or scholarship kid, or gender quota, or diversity hire—“ or anchor baby, illegal, welfare kid, job stealer, non-American - no matter how hard we’ve worked, how much we’ve contributed to society and the economy, no matter whether we’re naturalized or natural born several generations back, we must’ve “stolen” someone else’s shot.
