Your use of the word Marxist truly shows the incidious nature of what I'm trying to talk about. You constantly use the word redistribution. What is being redistributed? You see, use of the word redistribution implies previous ownership, taking something away from one person and giving it to someone else. Nobody owns opportunity: unless you have grown up in a country where you assume all opportunities are your birthright and any opportunity afforded anyone else somehow 'takes' from you. For many years all the opportunity in this country was 'owned' by white males and a structure was put into place to preserve that 'ownership of opportunity.' Without acknowlegdement that this has been the reality in this country makes any rational discussion of this topic difficult. That system that was unfair to everyone else is being dismantled and the people who benefited from the previous system are a little upset about it.

Affirmative action in its best form can be found in the NFL 'Rooney Rule.' It requires each franchise to interview a minority candidate for head coaching jobs. That's all. It requires an opportunity be given. It doesn't guarantee results. It doesn't require percentages, just opportunity. You can interview as many candidates as you want so it doesn't 'take away' opportunity from anyone. You can hire whoever you want, but you have to make a good faith effort to at least consider a minority. As a result many qualified minority candidates who would have been overlooked have been hired because they were given the opportunity. The question asked about programs like this is, 'How long should they be in place?' In most cases that is difficult to answer, but not in the NFL. The NFL should get rid of the Rooney Rule when medicore minority head coaches with career losing records are hired as coaches of good teams over and over again (ex. Norv Turner).

I'll ask the question again. It keeps getting ignored

For a long time in this country you had to be a white male to be considered qualified in the first place. This is the biggest Racial Preference in the history of the country and ALWAYS WILL BE, but because it is the default position nobody truly addresses it for what it is, a (de facto) RACIAL PREFERENCE. Since we have established that Racial Preference is wrong, then please tell me how we begin to redress the unspoken, de facto racial preference of being a white male? Please don't tell me what we shouldn't do, but address what we should do.

BTW, 'Get over it' is an inadequate response