I found an interesting article below about an Asian student at the University of Maryland who is opposed to affirmative action taken by the university because other minority groups are receiving larger scholarships than him while they have lower academic scores and he is a state champion athlete.

http://www.pacificcitizen.org/content/2008/national/mar7-lin-affirmative-action-1014.htm

Also in this article, 5 states are trying to put a vote into place on the November ballots that will erase affirmative action plans with regards to "public contracting, employment, and education." This will be interesting to see if it even makes the ballot to begin with. Arizona is one of the states that is attempting to add this vote in November.

I don't think this will pass in all honesty even though I would like to see it go through. I think there is too much pressure to be PC from larger companies that are requiring smaller companies to diversify in order to get contracts from them. I was talking with my dad this weekend and he was telling me that one large potential client opted to go with his law firm for a big bankruptcy case. The company chose them because their law firm excelled in AA hiring practices as well as met a company quota for the number of Asian and women within the firm, that the other law firm didn't meet. I personally don't see how that is relevant nor do I want to know if that was the sole reason the decision was made. It was obviously significant enough for them to tell the law firm they had just hired.