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I can accept the premise that people from a lower socioeconomic status have a disadvantage in society. What I cannot accept is the racist/sexist assumption that all black people (or women/Hispanics/etc) are necessarily disadvantaged. While racism still exists in a societal sense, many minorities are trapped in a cycle of poverty, not a cycle of racism. If you want fair and effective affirmative action, give it to all poor people because they are all attending the same failing schools in the same crime-ridden neighborhoods, regardless of race.
However, the problem with affirmative action is that it addresses the problem only after it has been created. There will always be poor people. But the key to upward mobility for the poor is early education, not trying to correct the problem when the person is 18, 28, 38 years old.
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