The problem is that, on average, Asian students are smarter and work harder than anyone else. That’s unfair. We need to save places for the REAL minorities—black and Hispanic. And white guys with connections.
The private schools take all the moderately qualified blacks (like the Obamas) and leave nothing for even elite schools like Berkeley. Berkeley measures it’s non athlete black male student population in the dozens, I believe.
Check this out:
http://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data
That's about the long and short of it. Being a "minority" isn't enough, you need to be a dysfunctional and under-performing minority to get the apparatus of the Affirmative Action racket to back you unconditionally.
“Affirmative Action” and “Diversity” are basically ways to legally keep rejecting some of the most highly gifted and productive students: Jews in the East, Asians in the West.