The name of the game is deceit. Other attacks on affirmative action are at the federal level. A class question. By opening doors once considered verboten, affirmative action has provided some escape from poverty and servitude for low-paid women and people of color. Affirmative action also benefits all workers by increasing the integration of schools and job sites, which lessens the deep divisions among working people that the corporate leeches depend on.
Affirmative action is key to the welfare and progress of the working class as a whole.
The power of labor against the bosses depends on unity, and unity depends on affirmative action. And at the same time, only the power of organized labor can ultimately save affirmative action. So far, students of color and leftists have been the heroes. At U.C.'s Boalt, for example, huge demonstrations marked the start of autumn classes. But students, people of color and radicals can't be left to stand alone on this crucial issue.