The Root: "White women are the real winners of affirmative action"

Article here. Interesting take. I've always thought that feminism's biggest success was in hijacking the civil rights movement. All of the justice that should have flowed to historically discriminated against minorities has instead flowed to the most privileged class of people to ever walk the earth, white women. And yet watch the Lifetime Channel sometime. In all of those civil rights period dramas the white woman is portrayed as the sympathetic friend of the black man, all responsibility for racism is pinned her cold, monstrous White Male husband. Excerpt:

'Last Sunday, veteran Washington Post journalist Juan Williams and conservative author Shelby Steele wrote two opposing op-eds on the pending death of affirmative action. Williams opined that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was too optimistic when she predicted that affirmative action, born with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, had at most 25 more years to live. And Steele argued that persistent racial inequality today between whites and African Americans is primarily a result of black underdevelopment rather than racism. I think they both missed the mark.

For all of Pat Buchanan’s angry bluster and “white men built this country” rhetoric, he too misses the glaring but often unspoken truth about affirmative action: that white American women have been the biggest beneficiaries of so-called minority preferences.

All economic indicators, higher education admissions’ practices, and corporate and law firm figures show that when it comes to leveling the playing field in the past 30 years, white women—not black men, black women or other persons of color—have gained the most ground.'