I hear you, but the problem with trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube or un-spill the milk is the fact that it's impossible. Affirmative action may have been a good idea for a set space in time. The 60's in America is a great example. We weren't super cool with the whole notion of integration and needed a little push. However, one needs to examine the deleterious effects that it has on systems as a whole. If you are filling a spot with a person of color for the sole purpose that they're a person of color, then you're missing the forest through the trees and doing a great injustice to your business. The best way I can explain it is that it's the opposame of police quotas. If you ask the police if they got a quota to fill, they'll insist it's not true, but the fact of the matter remains. They know damn well that they do. They'll couch it behind a different and more convenient term, all the while playing that it doesn't even real. If an individual business owner in today's day and age failed to hire a more qualified person because of their skin color, then they deserve to lose in the market. Also, I'm biased as hell. Were I a business owner, I wouldn't hire anyone of a certain age bracket had I the slightest inkling that they "earned" a college degree. Color me racist if you choose, perhaps it's that, or maybe I'm all business and less heart. P.S. If I have to pay reparations for slavery when I never owned a slave, who will compensate me for my stolen car stereo system? Should it be all black men? If not, why? If yes to reparations, why is it the responsibility of all white men? What about the white women, Jews, and African American family lines who owned slaves? How about the tribal leaders who sold them down the river in the first place? Why is it just white males who did slavery? The idea of collective accountability is cute, but it's retarded and almost always leads to war. A great example of that is: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Therefore, your average Japanese resident of Hiroshima and Nagasaki must get turned into a nuclear shadow. Or someone takes down the trade centers, so we must have a 100-year war waged on largely innocent civilians. Collective prosecution is pure poison. Just wait for it. It's coming to a theater near you. World war is the inevitable outcome of our current trajectory. Here's to becoming a nuclear shadow as opposed to a puking pile of vomit. Sláinte!