The Court assuming the authority to end or mitigate years of discrimination by authorizing the subjective discrimination against generations of individuals who did not benefit from previous discrimination renders the 14th amendment "meaningless". On a functional level affirmative action simply doesn't work. It benefits the sons and daughters of rich minorities at the expense of disenfranchised poor minorities and low class white immigrants and decedents of poor immigrants who battled years of hardship themselves.

Ending the legacy of discrimination and mitigating the latent discrimination that prevails to this date consitute a compelling state interest that should outweigh the interest in "colorblind" policy.

Admissions to schools of this type should be based solely on the merit of those applying, independant of race, religion, or economic backgrounds. It seems odd to me that we would sanction a program that allowed barely passing students a chance to become lawyers, doctors or engineers, while excluding more qualified applicants.

Base it on real background, not skin color.

There is no costitutional defense of affirmative action. In fact, its a violation of the 14th Amendment.