They may succeed. Suddenly, a separate campaign for a constitutional referendum this fall has more credence.
White women are by far the greatest beneficiaries of state preference programs.
Hispanics are next. Why black activists eagerly carry water and take flack for the primary beneficiaries is baffling. Certainly it is counterproductive. Legal barriers to equal opportunity fell a generation ago, but nothing has more stubbornly stood in the way of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream that someday people would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin than have preferential treatment laws. Nothing has so tainted the legitimate rise and success of minority students, employees and business people as has the suspicion that they could not have gotten where they are on their own.