Affirmative action was naively and wrongly intended to be a contemporary recycling of Noblesse Oblige. Now, Noblesse Oblige is laudable when it just means for the more fortunate to feel a societal duty to aid the less fortunate, whoever they may be, but when such assistance is predicated upon race regardless of individual need, it becomes the racially odious and false doctrine once known as the White Man’s Burden, because it illegitimately assumes an absolutely stratified society in which every black is poorer and needier than every nonblack - which is not only a false view, but one grounded in prejudice and bigotry.

The passage of antidiscrimination laws should be quite enough. We should just go ahead and provide assistance to the blacks who need it - and to the nonblacks who need it - without drawing gratuitous racial distinctions. If all other things are equal and two families are equally needy, their respective races should not be a separating and deciding factor.