Again, it's your made up definition of "racist" that happens to ignore history, the purpose of the programs, and what made them arguably necessary.
Let's put it another way that you can dutifully ignore. Imagine two white children. One goes to a modern school in the wealthy suburbs, has highly paid, well trained teachers, access to modern technology, state of the art science labs, computer equipment, well stocked library, current textbooks and all that comes with well funded education.
The other white child attends a completely inadequately funded school in the mountains that has none of that - no science labs at all, inadequately trained teachers (often recent grads effectively getting trained but without adequate supervision), outdated textbooks, no access to computers, and all the rest.
Clearly the state has conferred massive advantages to the first child - he's benefited from a lifetime of affirmative action for the wealthy. If admissions to college acknowledge that and provide a preference to poor kids, those policies are doing nothing more than giving the second child a fighting chance to overcome what was till then a lifetime of effective discrimination against him or her.
Race was a shorthand for identifying those applicants who had been disadvantaged by competing with other children who had benefited from a lifetime of affirmative action in favor of whites. The biggest problem is those preferences were imperfect, flawed, in that they didn't distinguish between blacks with access to a good education, or whites who also attended woefully underfunded schools and were burdened by the same societal disadvantages.
Still doesn't make affirmative action programs "racist" except in your own made up world where words mean what you say they mean.
