Bobert, they're slipping through the cracks anyway. So handful of extra blacks get into college -- and that solves... ??? Are any big race issues really getting fixed by Affirmative Action? Since Affirmative Action began, if you look at the economic figures, black people are no better off than they were before. As a social solution, I don't think it works and I don't think it solves a darn thing. The U of Michigan can racially balance their campus all they want, but is it really sending more black kids to college? Or does it just send the ones that could afford it anyway to the U of Michigan?

Meanwhile we perpetuate a system that causes as much injustice as it solves, stirs up resentment among those poor whites who should have the most common cause with poor blacks, is endless fodder for racists to "prove" that blacks have it so easy that we don't NEED to do anything else, and most of all continues to divide, divide, divide by the color bar.

If we Affirmative Action everything into racial balances equal to the population, will that end racism? Or will it make it worse by dummying down the system so far for blacks that no one bothers to fix the inequities that make the special considerations necessary in the first place?