The GI Bill had problems with racism [1].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill#Racial_discriminatio...
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill#Racial_discriminatio...
But it doesn't detract at all from the fact that investment in regular "non-genius" people (whether via the GI Bill or otherwise) had a fundamentally positive impact on the society.
Racial bias being intentional or not, the ideas of the GI bill seem like they would have worked even if they weren't targeting certain classes of people, making the idea of the bill good. That's the interesting conversation.