What you say is true, and affirmative action has ended a lot of potential college degrees from being earned.
Many times people who would do alright at a state or city college are through affirmative action thrown into a school like USC where they my not be able to compete. Many drop out never earning any degree. (which to me is a horror of a result)
That is another unspoken topic and IMO this form of affirmative action has kept the blacks from degrees they would have earned.
I don't like the way that happens at all.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162284/posts
too many foreign born blacks graduating from Harvard... not enough inner city poor black kids. Aside from being discriminatory, the rules are not specific enough for WHICH kinds. Which is often the trap of liberal feel good intentions. As for black kids who may not make it all the way through, Harvard and USC could care less. Except now they target people who stay all four years and thus pay them more money. It ALWAYS comes down to money.
BTW, there are many successsful black people attending state schools because they're cheaper and less of a hassle than a high brow lib fortress than Harvard. Not to mention all the folks in the military taking correspondence courses,etc. The majority of young black kids I've met joining the military are doing it for the college money and experience. So it's all as bad as the liberals want people to believe, just not going the way they like.
I find nothing redeeming in the liberal approach to life. prasites that they are.