The comment about Michigan is not worth replying to, except to say that Michigan letting "a few blacks into law school" is one of the poorest summaries of the issues that I've read.
You are right, that is a pretty weak comment. What happens with me is that I have a tendency to post something quick and to the point as like most people (not all) I dont have a lot of time to devote to posting. However, let me speculate on some numbers. Lets say there are now 2800 law schoolers at Michigan or 700 per year. (Wild guess) Lets say with affirmative action they let in 10% or 70 blacks. Without AA it likely would be around 5% or 35 blacks. So, in one of the largest universities in the country we get 35 extra black attorneys, not all of who will practice law. In a nation of nearly 400 million people, that doesnt cause me any grief at all. Maybe I am minimalizing an important point but that is what I meant by a "few blacks". By the way, my comment was in no way racist if you took it that way. I am in favor of any person who wants to upgrade him or herself.
No, I didn't take it as racist--I like to think that you and I and most on here can disagree, even vehemently, without questioning the motives and honor of the people we disagree with.
Your point: it is an insignificant number. But, I see from your profile that you are almost as old as I. I know that in 30 years or so you've seen the camel's nose in the tent many, many times in many, many areas that have grown to fill up the tent. My tolerance for those noses is ended--the damned things should be smacked ASAP. I think that the problem comes from thinking it is a small thing--forgetting the principle--and ignoring it until too late. It has happened with firearms, with affirmative action, with highway fund appropriations and seatbelts, with smoking, and with everything else in American life. The idea of diversity for its own sake and without regard for merit has metastasized throughout our institutions, public and private, and is destroying us, IMO. This frog is saying the water is too hot--let's turn the heat off.
One other thing, then to a company barbecue: if you pose your objection to my argument with state's rights, i.e., Michigan can do what it wants, then I am with you totally, provided that all states can do it the way that they want.