Joe in the U.S.
Opinionated maybe, but its interesting that you offer no "intellectual or academic" refutation to dispel my ignorance.
Surely you can see that an affirmatocracy is inconsistent with a meritocracy?
How do the best minds rise to the top if selection is not based on merit but on quotas?
The affirmative action zeitgeist has catapulted Obama way beyond the Peter Principle and Americans, and the world, will suffer because of it.