Affirmative action is wrong. I do believe in helping out youths in less-fortunate situations but giving them leverage in the highschool or college process is taking it too far. What about scholarships? Why can't we give those african americans who are less fortunate scholarships for doing well, instead of bringing an african american who barely gets an 800 on their SAT's in with students who recieve 1300's.
It's not just wrong, but in the long run you're just screwing them over. Sure, bring them into Harvard, Princeton and Yale with little education but good atheltics and see what happens once they're there. They'll fail out, or if they don't because the school helps them get by, what will happen when the school can't always have their back in the real world. Once you're at the job and you need to do something, you can't get someone else to do you're own tasks.
It's just wrong and racist that a white person with the same credentials as some black kid can't get into Boston College, but the black kid can, becuase he's "racially diverse and brings diversity to the campus." I'm all for bringing diversity, but don't be half-ass about it and just bring them in because - hey they're black it'll look good for us - no bring them in because they earned their spot, and if they couldn't do well in school in their town, then tough, life sucks sometimes but we can't just go out and spoon-feed minorities because school systems in some inner-city area aren't up to par.