"There’s no way you’d been reading this – and I could not write this – if it weren’t for affirmative action. And there’s no way on earth I could have gotten accepted to fancy-ass schools including Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, UCLA and Berkeley—without affirmative action. Because I flunked basic English."

https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/confessions-of-an-affirmative-action-baby-174362?e=e6c1f26041