[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The main effect of affirmative action is to promote blacks to their level of incompetence - and probable failure.

while the numbers of blacks at UC Berkley have decreased, the total number of blacks enrolled and graduating from the UC system of schools is increasing . . . .

I remember thinking that the end of affirmative action in UC admittance - due to passage of an initiative - would have exactly that effect.

Walter Williams has written some very good articles on this subject.

Got links? I'm interested in this.

[AQGeiger]

Here you go. I have to eat a bit of crow, though. The article is by Thomas Sowell. Walter Williams does write on affirmative action, but the subject of UC Berkeley in particular is Sowell's forte.

The Other Side of Affirmative Action

This article is from 1999. I know he's written on the subject since then, but that was the first thing I found, and I'm trying to give you a speedy response. Jewish World Review has a very complete archive of his articles, you could find other items on the subject there.