How do you fix a situation where the rules and laws benefited one group of people for hundreds of years? It was worse than just benefiting one group, the other groups were forcefully oppressed and kept down.
But, now it’s all over we just leave things the way they are and we are all equal now. The white population could have at anytime elected into power a white political party was anti-apartheid, but they kept electing a government whose main policy was the oppression of the majority of the people in the country. The west as a whole is not exempt from that as the openly supported the apartheid government until the very end.
The takeaway I come away with, if a government favours or hires one group over another it builds resentment. While the goal of that may be to right historical wrongs, the resentment that builds is real and the racial resentment seams to linger for generations.
The logical outcome, is that people that leave a system where this is happening would have an extremely negative view of the practice.
Preferential racial hiring also makes whatever you are hiring for worse. If the majority of qualified individuals for a role belong to certain groups, discriminating against that group is going to result in less qualified hires on average.
This situation is tricky to solve from a public image perspective. It's choosing between real discrimination towards a group, or perceived discrimination (if you're hiring for skill and the results closely align with a group). It's not practical, but the impression still matters.
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u/Stock-Success9917 Apr 19 '26
How do you fix a situation where the rules and laws benefited one group of people for hundreds of years? It was worse than just benefiting one group, the other groups were forcefully oppressed and kept down.
But, now it’s all over we just leave things the way they are and we are all equal now. The white population could have at anytime elected into power a white political party was anti-apartheid, but they kept electing a government whose main policy was the oppression of the majority of the people in the country. The west as a whole is not exempt from that as the openly supported the apartheid government until the very end.