I think it's a travesty that a person of color gets extra points over a white kid with the same test scores. It's a mockery of integration. It says "if you're white, you're not wanted, you are less-than." How is that any different than when we treated people of color in a similar fashion? It's not. It's still discrimination justified by bigotry only instead of saying the reason is skin color we now say we're correcting "white privilege" A kid who was born in the last 20 years shouldn't be held responsible for conditions in past generations. That's an excuse that we ought to stop using in this country. We will be a truly post-racial society when the color of someone skin doesn't matter at all and two people with the same test scores will have an equal chance of being selected based on some other character-based criteria beyond their test scores. I'm speaking as someone who is mixed race (American Indian) and I don't want my children treated as "special". Affirmative action needs to go.