Affirmative action is a very important subject. Affirmative action is a law that says all businesses and colleges must accept a certain number of minorities into their workplace or university. If they don't, they will face strict fines. Propsistion 209, recently passed by Californian voters, ended a long saga of affirmative action. We all will be affected by affirmative action in the long run, even if it hasn't touched us yet.
Affirmative action does help minority students get into college, no question about that.
Many of these students who otherwise would not have normally gotten in, become great lawyers, doctors, teachers, and engineers someday. A recent study showed that people admitted under affirmative action have the same success rate as people who get in otherwise. Affirmative action also helps balance out race and gender in colleges and workplaces. After affirmative action was killed by Prop 209 in California, many schools's minority population dropped to 1963 levels. A recent UC law school had only ONE black student admitted into their campus.