The worst part about our current moment in race relations is that the left is promoting a doctrine actively destructive to black self-esteem. The fundamental grain of the leftist argument is "hire/admit/promote black people at their statistical proportion relative to the population, above all other factors." For black people who are not stupid (as much a majority within the black race as within all the races), there is a voice in the back of the head that asks, "Hmm. If I was hired because I was black, would I have been hired if I weren't?" In other words, by giving them this "help", you plant the firm seed in their mind that perhaps they didn't achieve what they did based on their skill but on their race. This is spiritual destruction.

Race-blind advancement (even with its acknowledged weaknesses) is an infinitely better construct than where we are now, for all races. Individual ability and family support need to return once again to the foundation so we can develop a society that better addresses our individual needs rather than "group" needs, when groups are never absolute, only temporary collections of widely disparate individuals with widely disparate abilities and dreams.