I think Universities are promoting racism with their complex race based systems of admissions. One of the biggest negatives of race based systems is that it contributes to the higher drop out rates of non Asian POCs, who find they can't compete at a university where the average student is smarter than they are.

I say this as the grandfather of five African American grandchildren, 2 Asian American children, three white children, and 2 white grandchildren.

I do think we need to offer poor children living in places with underperforming public schools access to alternative educational choices, if we are serious about helping poor children who are disproportionately POCs succeed.

Instead our current system pits students with poor educations against those with the best private school educations money can buy and inevitably minority students drop out in disproportionate all numbers all in the name of social justice.

We keep trying to fix a system broken at the bottom with some convoluted system at the top. So a poor African American child forces to attend a failing public school system but who despite that works hard enough to go to college gets accepted by a premier university where they rank at the bottom of their class when they could have gone to a school that does not practice any racism and competed to be the top of their class.

When I ran a company, when hiring people out of college I would much rather have hired an African American who graduated near the top of their class then someone who was at the bottom. I faced a similar situation, even though I am white.

I got accepted to a top university thanks to my athletic ability. While there I had a solid "C" average. I married in college, kind of dropped out, and returned to attend good state schools. During those last two years, I got 15 As and 1 B (there were no As in my class in the class I got the B). I got hired by a premier Accounting firm and went on to have a tremendous career resulting in my ability to retire at 48.

I doubt I would have been hired by a premier company with C average. Getting married and dropping out of full time school for two years helped me "grow up". And as I engaged with students that were more like me, I began to excel. Once I began to excel, I liked it and began to study harder. I think if I had gone back to that top university my last year I could have excelled there two with my confidence and study habits improved.

The point is simple. Affirmative action that results in stacking the deck against minority students is dumb. I have less of an issue with "affirmative" scholarships for poor students to insure "money" does not prevent them from attending a school they are qualified academically to attend.