Whatever the cause, whatever the sad story, neither you, the government, a university or a private employer has a right to trade my rights to someone else without my consent. It is an irrelevant question. My rights are individual to me and belong to me. It is as if I'm lost at sea waving a flag, hoping someone on shore will notice. It doesn't much matter to me that the rest of my group is safely on shore.
Civil rights belong to everyone, or no one.
If you tell someone that his life can be negatively impacted because of approved governmental action taken against him due to his skin color, don't expect him to rise to your defense when you need help. At that point, you've told him that he has no rights. This in fact is where we have gone. The long road back is in front of us. Hopefully, we will have more courage to walk down it than, say, President Clinton, who even now is attempting to rescue the bankrupt ideology underlying reverse discrimination.