Just so we're clear: The following quotation from the above op-ed is, in your mind, racist, correct?
"Take affirmative action, for example. To proclaim that it’s okay to evaluate black and Latino college applicants partly on grades but also on their contribution to “diversity” — while white and Asian students are required to just put up or shut up — is racist."
So? He likes to pay lip service to the idea of eliminating affirmative action, because he wants the world to think he succeeded strictly on his own merit, and that’s consistent with that. He has himself been beneficiary to the kind of attention from conservatives that Dr C is now enjoying; Bill Cosby has also been due to his occasional remarks about Ebonics etc.