Second, I think that affirmative action tends to promote racial resentment and perpetuates negative stereotypes. Some Asian-Americans and whites believe they are the victims of affirmative-action discrimination and can feel resentment about it.

That makes you a fucking idiot. The only thing "promoting racial resentment" is your own stupid ass. I've dealt with that shit too. The number of minorities that actually benefits from AA is not enough for Asian-Americans to bitch about it.

Even you once wrote that people make this assumption of you in Boulder

The assumption is erroneous. If people read a fucking book now and again they'd see how often AA even helps minorities. And besides that, the assumption itself is racist, not the tool. Even if people assume it, so fucking what, in the end. I'm black, that's the least of my fucking problems at the moment. I'd rather people think it and it goes to the people who need it than to not have it at all.

If we want to help a disadvantaged group, the impoverished are where we should be directing our attention in regards to education. Don't you think?

Except. Except minorities are the ones that are impoverished to begin with. Hence why its necessary.