While I this story does show a nice gesture, I don't necessarily view it as a reason not to have affirmative action. I feel like you aren't the only one who thinks of these events as you described them. That is, I'll bet other people in the white church were happy to be of help to the black church, and that's how they described it: white people having lunch with black people without a sign of racism.

But we really shouldn't be thinking of it that way, I mean, why can't it simply be one church helped another? Perhaps I am so unimpressed with this story because I used to go to school with people of different races every day, and I now work with people of many races every day, and its become so common that when I get home it doesn't even occur to me that I should be proud that I wasn't racist.

If these churches integrated, maybe it would be a step in the right direction. But this still doesn't speak against affirmative action. It instead serves as a reminder to me that people are still thought of by their race.

Don't mistake me, however. I do believe that affirmative action is wrong. It is wrong because it treats people unequally based on race. We can't solve inequality with inequality: that just results in even more people being treated unfairly. Further, affirmative action perpetuates the wrong type of thinking. It encourages people to associate an individual's qualifications with his race. It makes people think, "Should I hire this guy? Let me check his race." That shouldn't even be on their minds. How can we expect people to stop judging one another by race if our laws demand that race be used to judge?

It is for those reasons that I think affirmative action is justly opposed.