Fred, I understand your point of view, but I don't believe it solves one injustice to perpetuate another system of injustice. Simply put, Affirmative Actions says if we screw over some poor white folks occassionally, that makes it okay to screw over poor black folks the rest of the time.

We aren't going to achieve parity in society by continuing to rely on racial lines. I personally cannot reconcile Affirmative Action with my sense of what is just and ethical. Others, like you, feel that the "good" injustice (helping a member of a historically disadvantaged race) outweighs the "bad" injustice (harming a member of a race which is not historically disadvantaged).

Sorry to hear you feel "embarrassed" for me. But thinking that Affirmative Action is a wrong method, does not mean that one thinks that "nothing should be done."