So the goal of affirmative action is to help provide a little balance. There are plenty of ways to be disadvantaged in our society, but our country has a long h

So the goal of affirmative action is to help provide a little balance. There are plenty of ways to be disadvantaged in our society, but our country has a long history of disadvantaging black people in particular. So race-based affirmative action is one (admittedly imperfect) way of bringing education to a class of people who might otherwise miss out. It's imperfect. There's no getting around that. But it's not racist. It is an attempt to compensate for existing racial biases and historical inequities.