Originally Posted by politicophile

Advantages of Colorblindness:

1. There is no need to terminate it. AA is clearly a temporary program, albeit one that nobody knows when to stop.

2. It isn't racist or reverse racist, so institutions that practice it would not be committing acts of preferential racism themselves.

3. It gives minority applicants the respect they deserve instead of assuming that every single black person is an idiot.

4. It makes white people happy that they are not discriminated against.

If AA was truly about rectifying past discrimination, Asians would receive it. However, because Asian (college) applicants are competitive with white students, they receive no help. Is the motto of AA, "If your race was historically discriminated against and can't seem to bring itself back into competitiveness with white applicants, we will help you. But if you've managed to overcome discrimination and become competitive, we're not giving you anything."?

The designers of AA programs are only human: they make mistakes, they do the wrong thing. Let's do the right thing and take the power of racism out of their hands: let's make race a non-factor.