They may put an end to affirmative action, per se, but the minorities will STILL be found constantly screaming for special treatment.
And, more than likely, getting it.
I don’t see any evidence of this. Selective public and private university admissions departments practice affirmative action avidly and are working every day to expand it as much as possible. There are a grand total of three elite colleges in the country — Berkeley, UCLA and Michigan Ann Arbor — that by law can’t openly practice affirmative action. Those schools, of course, still want to do so, and have created a matrix of “disadvantaged” admission preference criteria that are designed to exclude Asians and whites from getting those seats.
California will restore affirmative action in 2016, too. Asian Democrats in the legislature blocked the first move, but the advocates will get the initiative signatures and in a Presidential November it is hard to see it failing — starts out with 35% “Yes” from African American and Hispanic voters and only needs to get 20% of the white and Asian vote on top of that; not a hard thing to do.
There are two (related) trends in this country that are going to affirmative action:
1. The growing population of Latin Americans -- who now exceed black Americans as the largest minority group in the U.S. These Latin Americans are considered "minorities" and benefit from affirmative action even in places where they outnumber any other racial/ethnic group. It's no coincidence (but it's still amazing, considering the politics of the state) that California -- where this trend is the most obvious -- was one of the first states to ban racial/ethnic preferences in college admissions.
2. Mixed-race and inter-ethnic marriages. This is where affirmative action plays out in a way that is so ludicrous that even its strongest supporters see the idiocy of it. I have close friends in "mixed marriages" where one parent is of Anglo-Saxon or Celtic origin and the other is from Latin America. In one case both parents are white Europeans but one of them was born in South America. Their children -- who look like something out of a National Geographic article about Ireland, Germany or Scandinavia -- are considered "minorities" as long as they want to call themselves "Hispanics" and can produce a Latin American birth certificate for one parent as evidence. As these kids are given preferential treatment in college admissions, public sector employment, etc., you will see the likes of Jesse Jackson and even Sonia Sotomayor blow their lids completely and demand an end to such a farce.
Squeaky wheel gets oiled. Looks like they poured most of it in her hair