[mdorazio]

Racial discrimination may be illegal, but good luck getting a supportive verdict on that for a white person unless he/she is applying to a majority non-white organization, and even then it would be tough.

In practice we now have affirmative action all over again. The best summary of my viewpoint on that comes from a guest speaker way back when I was in college: “If you think affirmative action is fair, I want you to look around the room, find a white or Asian person, and say to their face that a black student deserves to be in their seat instead, because they’re black.”