

I don’t think this is wrong, but it doesn’t force the perspective of “That guy got screwed.” The point of it all is to get people who are unconsciously doing/supporting racist things, say, “I never thought about it like that”
Those same people reading your version will immediately turn it into, “Some of those minorities are getting an unfair advantage!” Or “I was one of the white men who didn’t get an advantage”, (those don’t exist)
That’s a very common misconception.
Wealth is generational. What our parents have, influences what we have, and what our grandparents had influenced what our parents had.
Let’s jump back 150 years.
Plantation owner has Millions in cotton money. One of his slaves does not.
Plantation owner’s son is able to buy his own plantation and a few slaves. The slaves son, is a slave.
The white grandson uses his father’s cotton money and connections to attend an ivy league school, and become something besides a plantation owner. The black grandson, is no longer enslaved, but he’s still working the fields for pennies.
White great-grandson has a trust fund and blows most of it on drugs and women, but his last name gets him an executive position at a local business he doesn’t understand. Black great grandson is the first in his family to learn to read. He studies hard and gets a scholarship to a law school you never heard of. He does well enough, but nobody really wants a black lawyer.
I know that not all white people are spoiled billionaires. Hell, I know I’m currently worse off than a lot of black people, but that’s not their fault. There’s still 200+ years of racism that kept a lot of them down, even though many were able to rise above many white people. And Trump’s crusade to crush DEI is causing otherwise well meaning white people to look at those successful black people and question whether or not they are qualified. Maybe some aren’t. I know plenty of white people who got into jobs they weren’t qualified for, I’m sure that’s happened to every group. But, the secret racism that we are perpetuating is that we see a successful black person and think, are they only there because of DEI? BUT when we see a successful white person, we don’t question their qualifications until they start making mistakes.
When people aren’t racist anymore, we won’t need a law that says DON’T BE RACIST. But we aren’t there yet, and we are getting further from that point every time Trump says DEI.