To counter this advantage, he argues that affirmative action will be necessary to ensure progress until blacks have achieved some kind of statistical parity with whites. In essence, he's saying that discrimination has created an economic problem which will require government intrusion into private economic matters to resolve. Somehow, I'm not convinced. The economic justification for affirmative action seems to rest on the presupposition that all blacks are poor and need assistance while all whites are rich and do not. The market corrects inefficiency and waste wherever it comes in contact with them.
Profits are truly color-blind.
This solution also has the added bonus of keeping the government out of our private affairs and eliminates coercion. Like all government programs that try to treat different classes of people differently under the law, affirmative action causes far more harm than good. The only way for a government to operate morally is to protect the rights of all individuals equally. While blacks were the victims of systematic forcible and violent exploitation until about 30 years ago, reversed discrimination is simply not a moral remedy. Proponents of affirmative action retort that the need to correct the economic disparity is so great that it outweighs the rights of whites and asians to procedural equality under the law.