Racial Affirmative Action Preferences

Here, I think, is the nub of the debate--one side reasonably believes that the only way to get "beyond race" is to take race into account for a period of time (a generation or two or three); and the other side reasonably believes that the only way to get "beyond race" is to stop using race as a factor in distributing governmental burdens and benefits. There are benefits and costs to both approaches, and perhaps we don't agree on how to weigh the costs and benefits.