Regardless of whether affirmative action is a necessary evil or not, it is still racism. If any of us were taken from our parents and sold at the age of 3 and then whipped into puberty by people of a different skin tone, we'd develop some fairly strong feelings on the quality of their race, too. But the point of the matter is that much of our overglamorized depiction of the noble slave suffering for the sake of their people is a myth. We get so wrapped up in our folk-hero notions of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth that the mentality of the common slave gets swept under the rug. There was just as much hate in the hearts that beat under African American skin as there was in the hearts that beat under white skin.
Racism is racism is racism.
It doesn't matter which race is on which side. It is also important that we identify our prejudices accurately. I look forward to the day when we can all look inside ourselves and see the bile-filled, prejudiced creatures that we all are. Only when we realize how truly flawed we are as individuals can we begin to grasp how fucked up we are as a species. But until that day, I suppose I will have to content myself with the ironic fact that our mutual prejudices are the one thing that brings us all together.