Reply #71: Affirmative action is a scam!

[bigbillhaywood]

It selects a small percentage of ethnic minorities to bring into the ruling class, at which point they help to perpetuate the classist economic system that helps feed racism-- institutional and otherwise. Economic organization of the working class on an equal footing, regardless of race, is the only hope we have of abolishing racism. AA lets a few succeed, and the rest are still trapped at the bottom.

At best it's a band-aid on a sucking chest wound, at worst a scam aimed to perpetuate the very system it claims to correct.