Quote Originally Posted by Pindar
Affirmative Action (AA) is a repugnancy. Discrimination to counter discrimination is both theoretically obtuse and practically horrid as it perpetuates a victim mentality and breeds dependency. Race itself is a false category.
No argument with any of those 3 sentences. If the post-civil war men in power had held the same enlighted mindset, AA would never have been necessary. But they didn't, so it was.

The only other course to reconciliation and integration I can think of is: monetary compensation. And I submit, that a single generation of AA policies in education and work, is cheaper, more goal-directed, and less fiscally-onerous than trying to figure out a proper amount to pay out.