Affirmative action is a government policy intended to counteract racial discrimination. West's Encyclopedia of American Law defines affirmative action as "to both mandatory and voluntary programs intended to affirm the civil rights of designated classes of individuals by taking positive actions to protect them." In other words, Affirmative Action actively promotes job discrimination as well as school admissions discrimination on the basis of both racial and gender.
The Government collects this information on school entrance and work applications exerting pressure behind the scenes to hire minorities and women (by giving them extra points during evaluations based on their race and gender).
It's time for the US Government to serve ALL of it's people not just the special interest groups.