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How is affirmative action discrimination? It results in lowering structural discrimination. If past discrimination is making it very hard for a minority to find its way into universities, simply freezing the status quo is resulting in discrimination to that minority. What is the difference to a person if past discrimination has made it impossible to get into a university or if a case of deliberate racial discrimination makes it impossible? The hypothetical in the OP I may not agree with since it sets a strict quota, but I don't think the principle is wrong.
There are hundreds of thousands of black college graduates. Most of them did not make it into school on affirmative action. Blacks do not need institutional racism in order to suceed.
Saying that they do makes your views on racial equality suspect.