You have to admit, what they’re saying makes a bit of sense. But the fact remains; racism and sexism still exists. If you take away affirmative action now, I think we would see a sharp rise in complaints.

Perhaps a day will come when we will no longer have a need for affirmative action. I just don’t think that day is today.

Obama’s success fuels affirmative action’s foes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama’s political success might claim an unintended victim: affirmative action, a much-debated policy that he supports.

Already weakened by several court rulings and state referendums, affirmative action now confronts a challenge to its very reason for existing. If Americans make a black person the leading contender for president, as nationwide polls suggest, how can racial prejudice be so prevalent and potent that it justifies special efforts to place minorities in coveted jobs and schools?

“The primary rationale for affirmative action is that America is institutionally racist and institutionally sexist,” said Ward Connerly, the leader of state-by-state efforts to end what he and others consider policies of reverse discrimination. “That rationale is undercut in a major way when you look at the success of Senator Clinton and Senator Obama.” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York battled Obama to the end of the Democratic primary process.

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