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A point was made of this earlier, but I want to back it up.
Anyone advocating getting rid of AA should also be advocating the removal of all preferences for admission, including alumni. I don't hear anyone whining about how they lost their place to someone with lower grades who's daddy went to the school. But they should be. That's a preference system for white people.
I think we can all agree that AA is BAD. But consider why it was installed in the first place. To level the playing field for students who had suffered from underfunded/inadequate schools due to race based preferences (public funding racism.) Preferences which I think we can also agree was BAD.
So what's the answer? Nobody can tell me that racial funding bias in elementary/high school has been eliminated. Poor neigborhoods, primarily populated by minorities, have worse schools than rich white neigborhoods. Does that mean poor minority kids should have less opportunities than rich white kids just because they didn't have as good an environment for learning? How do you balance the scales? Perhaps a kid who got B's in a lousy school should be admitted over a kid who got B's in a good school. Yeah, and race shouldn't matter.
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