<i>What bugs me about this is that the people who would have benefit from these policies, such as my ancestors, are long dead and gone. The people who oppressed them are also dead.</i><p>At least in the US, <i>Brown v. Board of Education</i> was 1954, and the Little Rock high school integration was 1957.  As far as I know, all nine of the students are still alive.  People who are now 75 were born at the same time as the black students who had to be escorted by US Marshalls to attend a previously all-white high school, so it&#x27;s not really ancient history yet.