Therefore, since the world has still/Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure/Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would,/And train for ill and not for good.
But skin colour is not an objective measure of how many obstacles an individual has surmounted. Affirmative action would be more just if based on economic and geographic background than racial background. A rich black person from Malibu has probably faced less obstacles than a poor white person from Appalachia when it comes to reaching tertiary education.
So follow me into the desert
As desperate as you are
Where the moon is glued to a picture of heaven
And all the little pigs have God
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he stops voting for the Free Fish party.
It's telling to me that the most complained about admissions policy is the one that helps black people. Legacy admissions, donor admissions and other admissions based on factors other than merit which primarily benefit upper class white people are rarely challenged and never with the same intensity. People don't have a problem with non-merit-based admissions policies. They don't have a problem with policies that benefit certain races over others. They have a problem with black people.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri