In a recent blog  at American Thinker the author mulls over the idea that Obama could move to a position of being against our current race based affirmative action program, and support replacing it with a class-based affirmative action program.  I have seen this suggestion modification put forward with increasing regularity, often put as:  "we shouldn't help rich black kids, we should help poor kids no matter what race they are".    I strongly disagree with this notion, now being advance by a nominally conservative publication that "class based" affirmative action is better, or less objectionable than the current system.    In fact it is far worse.  First let us return to the original justification for affirmative action:  society needs to make up to a group, initially blacks, for their ancestors mistreatment by society as a whole.  In the case of blacks, that includes...(Read Full Post)