Hopefully, the New Haven fire fighters decision by the Supreme Court will give some guidance to this issue.
I think affirmative action was a reasonable idea when it was first passed. It was designed to help descendants of American slaves and Native Americans, but it was later expaned to cover such a large collection of people the only people it didn't cover were Euorpean Males.
The majority became the minority.
If it had been left alone, Barack Obama would not have been able to benefit from affirmative action, and neither would Collin Powel. His folks were from Jamaica.