I think we still have a need for both affirmative action and active enforcement of the Civil Rights Act because racial prejudice is still "alive and well in America" and discriminatory acts based on such prejudice are still all too commonplace.  

When President Obama was elected many of us optimistically thought we might be entering a era of "post racist" America.  Boy, were we ever wrong.  President Obama's election, instead, brought the racists out from under their rocks and, somehow, seemed to invite open hate-filled comments and attacks we hadn't seen in decades....it became "open season" for racists and tens of millions of hateful racist posts are on the internet.  Websites have been established for the express purpose of publishing such posts.  

Of course "it's all President Obama's fault"...well, maybe, after all he did have the nerve to be an African American and to be elected President....."how dare he!"  

We're a long way from that "post-racial (and racist)" America.