I went to high school and had a close friend named David Murrel. David was 4th generation Hispanic-American. George's family was a little better off than mine, and they didn't speak a work of Spanish in their home.
Comes time to apply to colleges and David is in hog heaven. Seems that since he was "hispanic" and a good student, colleges were falling all over each other to admit him and give him scholarships. He went to Princeton on a full scholarship and is a doctor today.
This is where I think Affirmative Action goes south. It takes someone's race or ethnicity and blows it out of proportion to the person's whole package. David went to college not on his academic strengths (which fortunately were pretty good) but instead went as a "hispanic" student and he became a "hispanic" doctor, and probably belongs to some "Organization of Hispanic Physicians" or some such rot. I always believed America was a place that melted people together, not catagorized them apart. Dividing people by their race - for preferential or discriminatory purposes - should be abhorant to any freedom loving person.