The Other Affirmative Action

Beinart uses the recent NAACP-tea party spat to advocate for class-based affirmative action:

Not only would class-based affirmative action focus remedial efforts onthose African Americans and Hispanics who need it most, it would linktheir fortunes to those of white working-class kids, and undermine theracial-partisan polarization that has marked the Obama years. Morewhite working-class kids at Harvard would mean an American educationalelite less easily caricatured by Fox News, and more able...