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Actually, I think you missed the point. Or are deliberatley ignoring it.
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Don't you agree it's unfair that an athlete with lower grades, or someone whose family has a legacy, gets into the college of your dreams, and you don't? Wouldn't you be peeved? Which is worse -- that a priviledged scion with a 2.4 GPA in high school gets in, or a hardworking black student from inner city schools gets in? Yet, noone is complaining about the athletes or the legacies. Why race?
*This* is the point. If you truly espouse admissions by merit, then it behooves you to challenge the preferred admissions towards athletes and legacy matriculants. Attacking affirmative action in the way that you are attacking it (not saying that a.a. should be invulnerable to criticism) is racist, whether you realize it or not.
And, many *private* scholarships are specifically geared towards funding minority education. This is irrelevant to the affirmative action debate, since many scholarships are funded external to the university. Not to mention, there are scholarships for -everything-.
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you seem to think it is perfectly fine to call all French, Canadian, English, German, Spanish, Russian etc white.
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Americans (and I am speaking of Americans specifically) of Western European descent are so ethnically mixed that it's impossible to separate the large number of them into distinct minorities. Yet a Cambodian is lumped with a Japanese or a Tibetan or an Indian -- Asia (especially the Middle East), to the minds of most Americans, is a homogeneous cultural 'blob'. It's intentional cultural insensitivity and ignorance.
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What if white people want to be proud of their ethnicity.
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Yes, you've had it harsh, huh???? What-with racial profiling, Jim Crow laws, slavery, incarceration. The tough life.