I'm firmly against Affirmative Action (can't stand NAACP) as I feel in this day and age it has no place but there was a reason the UNCF was formed. If the "so called negro" of the time would have been given a fair shake based on merit and not color such things would not have been necessary. Same with business, if businesses would have treated workers fairly Unions wouldn't have been necessary either. Now it may not have been called the "united whiteboy college fund" but that's what it was. Same for the Miss America because we all know for sometime non-whites were not allowed. Was it in writing? no, but we all knew the rules. Lewis Lattimer, Elijah McCoy, Granville Woods and others made some of the most important inventions that we take for granted today but at the time they made it they were considered 2nd class citizens based on color only. Garrett Morgan, traffic light and gas mask. Otis Boykin, the electronic control device for Guided Missiles and IBM's computers. He also made the 1st Pacemaker. There's plenty more and their work was done while being kept in the background and most of the time under duress 24/7. Water coming from the same source but yet I gotta drink out of this one, pure insanity. Hell my Grandfather was sent to Europe to fight during WWII in a segregated Army and to risk his life and what was his reward? He got to come back home to ride on the back of a damn bus and go thru the back or side door of restaurants and $#!t like that. I'm glad that crap has gone away. I was a little boy during the Detroit riots and I'm here to tell you as a child I was scared to death. I've fought tooth and nail for what little I have but I earned it and sometimes had to jump thru hoops to get it but I got it. I don't think you are as wound up about it as it sounds but you got to know there is good and bad everywhere within every race and there is enough blame to go around. I can tell you the average person of color would rather get whatever they are after like everyone else but sometimes that wasn't available and being people of color was not in power when all of these "entitlement" programs were created nor created by us, the bulk of the blame is going to have to be concentrated somewhere else.