... wouldn't use AA as some sort of gauge for racial equity, either. We're in agreement on that. And I'm not trying to make AA into some end-all fixit. On the contrary, I realize it is flawed, just as any system is. But I support it, because the alternative is "Fuck you, darkie - we have no compelling reason aside from PR to 'diversify' our campus. Have a good one!"
Which is essentially what my Dean of Minority affairs intimated to me and the rest of the campus diversity club when we asked him to speak on the subject.