So summarizing, a waiter was terrible 30+ years ago, and your dad ran into tons of politics in the VA, and you didn't get into the school you think you should have in your otherwise extremely privileged upper middle class life that had you interacting with high level government officials as a child, so protected classes were a mistake?

Like black people had to consult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book when driving cross country to not be hanging out of a tree the next morning. That's pretty new since the civil rights act passing.

I'm astounded by the amount of privilege shown to somehow think the experiences you've shown obviate the need for protected classes.