text: Yeah....it makes everyone equally poor and makes life equally suck for everyone.\n\nThe bottom line is this, it is good for society that the more able, intelligent and valuable members be given certain important jobs and have greater access to resources.  Those with lesser skill and ability or whom are of low value, are that way by choice.  Giving them positions of authority or giving them greater access to resources is highly damaging.  This also has little to do with race or race relations or anything.  It is solely a function of choice.  And being a function of choice, not only is it highly inappropriate to give lesser people preference over better people, based on race, it is disasterous to do so.\n\nFurther, it is highly counter-productive to have preferences with regard to social equality.  What you are doing is removing the incentive for these people to choose to be equal.  That is very, very bad for them.  Not only will most members of the preferred group see no point in improving themselves, the situation tends to favor those who show up for a situation first, rather than those who actually improve themselves.  That college that lets in unqualified black students, is, in effect, giving those slots on a first come, first serve basis, shutting out the QUALIFIED black students that come later.  It becomes pointless to work to become qualified.  And then the reputation, standards and quality of that college disintergrate.\n\nThis isn't social theory, btw.  It is the repeating pattern that has ALWAYS happened every time preferences are instituted.  It has been tried many, many times and there have been no exceptions.  Every single instance has resulted in dramatic failure.\n\nPreference based on merit is the ONLY workable solution.  Ironically, it is the ONLY path to social equality.\n\nRacial preferences are racist.  And racism hurts.