In 1993, media mogul Walter Annenberg donated $100 million to the Peddie School, a then not-so-prominent boarding school in New Jersey. Annenberg wanted to attend Princeton, New Jersey-based Lawrenceville, but he was turned down on account of being Jewish.
Annenberg’s story is a reminder of the ugly nature of discrimination, but it also explains the quickest fix for what is ugly: freedom to discriminate. Yes, you read that right. Only when what is ugly is freely practiced will societies, teams, businesses, and schools see up close the foolhardy nature of it.
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