Alright, look, if a program is aimed at racial discrimination, does that make the program itself racist? In the case of affirmative action, those programs were designed to counter a racial bias in college admissions of primarily black students capable of doing the coursework but with lower test scores, generally thought to be the result of inferior K-12 schools underfunded because they are in poor neighborhoods. Remember, most public schools are locally funded, so rich neighborhoods have rich schools, poor neighborhoods have poor schools.

The intent of racism is to keep certain races down. Admissions criteria favor applicants from more affluent areas with better schools. In states where a third of the people are black, for instance, why is it that only a tenth or twentieth of public university admissions are black students? That is a racist result that causes harm to black communities and perpetuates poverty, a situation that's bad for our nation. That's why AA programs aren't racist.