Affirmative Action Update

Today's LA Times has an story about a law review article that posits the theory that affirmative action at America's law schools has actually had a result opposite of that it was intended to reach. The UCLA law professor believes that the programs place students in schools for which they would normally not qualify, with mixed results of success, and had these students gone to lower tier schools, they would have been more successful both in grades and bar passage. The bottom line of this theory, being attacked by others, is that there would be MORE black lawyers without affirmative action.
So, who is this heretic? Some lily white Pat Robertson loving John Ashcroft worshiping Bible thumping southern Christian fundamentalist? Well, he's white, but is a progressive who voted for Kerry and is married to a black woman. The traitor!