Obama = no need for affirmative action?

I do not believe that just because Obama, our first black president, has been elected it automatically means that affirmative action is no longer needed. Sure, Obama successfully graduated college and attended Harvard University coming from a race that is considered a minority, but what difference does that make to affirmative action? Obama is just one person, and he's not even full black. Just because Obama made it to college and became our new president doesn't mean that blacks have suddenly all become richer and moved to better communities. Affirmative action has made the acceptance rate in colleges way higher and gives the minority the opportunity of some real education in contrast to their poor neighborhoods without the kind of benefits of rich communities that are mostly populated by whites.

To clear up my opinion once again, i do not believe that JUST BECAUSE Obama has been elected means that affirmative action is no longer needed, but in the whole i disagree that affirmative action should even be in colleges. I don't believe in affirmative action because, really even though marjority rules and shows that most blacks, hispanics, or asians are the minority this means that they all don't have the same kind of opportunities a white person could. What i'm really trying to say is that affirmative action should not be based upon race but instead on a person's income and backround. (not meaning ethnicity) There are also white people who are raised in the same poor communities as the "minority" yet they are ignored and the minority gets to get accepted first. If you truly want to help the minority to get into college despite their lack of opportunities, you should forget them as minorities and consider their incomes rather than race. When did colleges ever just become a place for racial mixing and affirmative action? College is a place for knowledge and to gain knowledge only. Instead there should be an action to replace affirmative action. An action that would only focus on what income their mothers or fathers have made, or what kind of neighborhoods they grew up in. This would be the only valid way of making sure everyone gets a chance to get into college. Acceptance should not be focused on race, which is why i diasgree that Obama being elected has anything to do with affirmative action whatsoever. We should not look at people or a race as a whole, because then we are just putting them down and continuing racism by considering them the minority therefore assuming that they are disadvantaged in life in any way. I mean doesn't affirmative action CAUSE more racism instead of helping mingle the races? Affirmative action should be thrown out the window and acceptance rates in college should only benefit people based on their classes. Something that will not put down the races and still be able to help the acceptance rate go higher than others.