[T]hese things [tolerance, diversity] can be accomplished without government-mandated racial preference, or any forced governmental meddling in the affairs of a private institution. The fact is that affirmative action is no different from the black codes, Jim Crow laws, and Fugitive Slaves Acts – all in the past. It differs only in who is given preference. Don’t ever forget that racial preference by laws was and still is racism. Richard Boddie
Bucknell University, class of 1961, self-described ‘black man’, Bucknell World, May 2003