"How Diversity Destroyed Affirmative Action"

"campus protests may not only be a backlash against persistent discrimination, racism and inequality, but also a display of a long-lasting frustration with the fact that these problems are not acknowledged in the public sphere. Indeed, among the demands made by the student protesters is that universities acknowledge historic injustices and issue formal, public apologies. There is no better place to illustrate this point than the current debate about affirmative action in college admissions, which reached the Supreme Court last week with the oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas...

Its role was to facilitate the social and economic mobility of people of color and women and to level the playing field between blacks and whites.

Yet, in the Court last week, where Fisher was heard, the justices mentioned neither the idea of reparations for black people nor persistent racial inequality. Why did these important issues vanish from the discourse on affirmative action and from our public consciousness?...

The Bakke ruling shifted the rationale for affirmative action from reparation for past discrimination to promoting diversity. This, in essence, made the discourse about affirmative action race-neutral, in that it now ignores one of the key reasons for why we need to give an edge to minorities."
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-diversity-destroyed-affirmative-action/

Yo. And the issue is that I kind of exist to service the system (even though I am pretty sure that my race has nevbeen a primary factor in admissions/successful job applications), and the system forgets that it has to serve me too. Institutions behave as though their embrace of diversity is a favor to black people, but should recognize that they need to be of service to black people if they want true diversity. Instead, we have to squeeze all of ourselves into the services they curry offer and if we feel unsupported, then maybe we don't really belong there and maybe we have to go find somewhere else, sorry.

Diversity programs focused solely on admissions are just reaching the level of tolerance, and what need is inclusion.