The article promotes tokenism and racial favoritism in a shameless way. It is obvious from the text that all of his perks are because he is black. What is painful is that he seems unaware of this.
He may be a great scientist just like Einstein but it will take a while to find out.
What a crock! The article shows that he has some intereting ideas and, other than an unconventional path (UT-Arlington-Penn State-Harvard rather than Harvard-Harvard-Harvard) it shows nothing about any favoritism. James Buchanan, the Nobel Prize winning conservative economist, started out in Tennessee schools -- so what!
The Society of Fellows takes only 5-10 folks a year -- I am sure there are plenty of wanna-be affirmative actioopn applicants, and they (by my observation) usually have 0-1 blacks in any year. So, there is no basis for saying affirmative action had anything to do with it and, at worst, he beat out a lot of others. A quick poke aorund the web looking at his work looks quite interesting. If you've read Thomas Sowell's biography, it has certain similarities -- and what Sowell has achieved is certainly not due to AA. Let's watch this guy's stuff and judge him on that.