Edited sentence: ...racial preferences enshrined into law are the first cousins to black separatism and black supremacy.Affirmative Action is supremacist in nature and corrupts the values of an objective merit selection criteria it purports to serve.As Bob Zelnick, A reporter from the Washington Post, wrote in his article Backfire, A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action.As practiced today, affirmative action discriminates on the basis of race, gender, or ethnicity against whites, males, and other unfavored groups.Based on the definition of Black Supremacy, a person who believes that black people have a higher (or supreme) rank for obtaining jobs, financial aid, acceptance to universities, government contracts, or any other special right is of a supremacist ideology.They legitimize a sense of victim hood that entitles the bearer to hold grudges against individuals who did him no harm..