Randall Kennedy

I think he makes very important decisions.

arguments about meritocracy.

I disagree with some of the points that he makes about meritocracy.

Yes, I think that there are values in meritocracy, extremely important, that in fact,

The movement from feudalism, the movement from status, the idea of, I don't care who your father or mother was.

I don't care from what part of town you come from.

I don't care what your last name is.

I don't care what the color of your skin is.

Show me what you can do.

And then somebody sits down, okay, I'll show you what I can do.

And they show it, you're in.

I think there's a lot to that.

And the impulse, the sentiments behind that, I resonate with that.

I think that there's a lot there.

What I want to do is I want to get rid of those features in society that

that deprive people of what you need to develop yourself.

You know, sometimes those are psychological.

Sometimes it's, you know, you're not around people who've done things that give you the idea that you can do things.

I want to get rid of that.

But the idea of