Reply #2: The problem is the media and lack of leadership....

[MadMaddie]

There are many of us who believe in affirmative action....I do believe women and minorities have advanced because of it.

Without Affirmative action, minority and women owned businesses will be dead in the water, many of those businesses are struggling under this administration...

You just have to look at Katrina to know that it must stay in place..
for those Gulf coast minority and women owned businesses they are being turned down for rebuilding funds by the Small Business Administration at alarming rates....

The neocons do not want equality for all Americans....they don't want to see the lower class and middle class move upward....

Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice are in the lead trying to dismantle Affirmative action....they are misguided.....

The civil rights movement is stagnant, the NAACP seems ineffective, we have no true leadership in the black community, our black churches have been effectively targeted by Carl Rove and split on the gay issue....

To answer your question Yes I believe it is racist to dismantle Affirmative Action...because there will be disenfranchisement of many American citizens...not just black, not just women but handicapped, and many more groups.