As a child of the sixties we fought for civil rights and equality. We had come out of WWII and Korea with the American blacks fighting our wars, relegated to second class citizenry, and came out of slavery to become as a permanent economic underclass. Affirmative action at that time was to give the black population a jump start to economic  equality.  None of us  could have imagined at that time how institutionalized an abused the program would become. I never though that some kid whose parents might have been born in Jamaica in 1972 could be the beneficiary of a program that was targeted to children of Americans who participated in our history and did not enjoy the full benefits of our society.  Sorry to say, I question how our previous President benefited when one of his parents wasn't American, was born to no one who was discriminated against in the  U.S. and benefitted from a program  not  designed as a y'alll come. I would like to keep affirmative action for those it was intended.