I've commented on the affirmative action debate pretty consistently with one single point - it is more important to be able to get rid of mistakes in hires (and create new openings) than it is to assign fewer openings to minorites - affirmative action may well actually increase the number of 'mistake' hires. At this point we need to get rid of those affirmative action mistakes, old school discriminators, and perhaps the worst, those that have abused these rules whose intent is the reduction of hate, not the inflaming and manipulation of it.
This letter is from the Seattle Times.
(I'm not totally sure on the year for this piece - last digit of the year is torn)