by Rufus G.W. Sanders

About the author: Rufus G.W. Sanders is a contributing editor and columnist for the Black Business Journal, a monthly magazine devoted to national and international news of interest to the black business community.

Affirmative Action has worked for the last 30 years to create a Black middle class. It has helped to integrate the American society and to truly diversify the American culture. It also has served to help nurture the socialization and the psychosocial development of Black people in this country. It was through affirmative education that Black people finally were able to assimilate into the American mainstream; but now the president wants to end the one social program in the history of America that even came close to the closing of the gaps of racism. No other program...