Because it’s my impression that minorities still have a lot of problems with glass ceilings in a lot of the better professions (like working as lawyers at law firms, etc.) and affirmative action is something that’s pulling black people out of lower economic rungs which in turn leads to a color blind society– more people who need a push (but who are talented people) to become successful get it and then in all sorts of ways the success of these people improves the ability of a new generation of black people to belong to a new social class.