"Rig - it sounds like your situation was a gross distortion of the law and I wonder if you could have taken the matter to court and appealed your effective exclusion on grounds of race."

          No, Lox, that's just the way affirmative action works, or doesn't. It must have happened to a lot of people, because they did away with affirmative action in California a few years later.

          What it did, though, was create the mindset in a number of folks that set racial harmony back several generations.