For those not blessed enough to have been enlightened by Benson's entire letter, let me clarify that her letter was written in support of affirmative action. Besides contradicting herself by indicating, within the same letter, that higher education is not an inherent right in the first quote and is an inherent right in the second quote, she also presumes to know for what I've fought. I don't blame my race or sex for keeping me out of those other schools, just as I would never insult my own intelligence by giving credit to my race or sex for getting me into this one. No, they label me as a racist and sexist.
Affirmative action is an issue of racial discrimination.
Racial discrimination is both illogical and immoral. To deny the fact that affirmative action is a racial issue would be to undermine the intelligence of people on both sides of the issue. I prefer to look at social issues from an individual perspective. Affirmative action asks us to make a sacrifice. As noble as that is, let's examine it on an individual basis, without rhetoric or statistics.