I think the best reason to do away with affirmative action, is because it should never have been implemented in the first place.
You don’t make things right by making things biased in a new direction.
You make things right by providing equal earned opportunity.
If blacks didn’t attend college on a representative basis, then I think it would have been reasonable to research why, and put in place things to help, “IF” it could be shown bias or something unreasonable stood in their way.
Look, if 10% of college students were white, and the white populace made up 70% of the college age kids, I think it would be reasoned to try to find out why. By the same token, if 10% of the populace is black, I would like to think 7 to 13% of the college students were black.
If it could be shown that blacks didn’t attend based in large part on choice, then nothing should be done even if their participation got down to zero percent.
I also support hiring on the merits. Whatever scores and qualifications stand out, that person should get the position. We cannot compete with people from all over the world, if we’re not hiring the best and brightest.
Barack Obama is the best example of that I know of.
MLK to his credit was against Affirmative Action—reluctantly he agreed with the understanding that it should last only 10 years. It should have been done in 1973.