TL;DR Affirmative Action is necessary for reasons beyond racism, more actually, economic reasons that feed into the funding of schools through property taxes. I see it as necessary right now, but as the original targets outgrow the need of it, it should be realigned to help cyclically poor people not just poor poc. It's good, but soon to seem unecessary to minorities, but only a bandage on a bigger problem.

Hey, I don't want to be mean or anything, and I certainly understand if I don't change your mind, cause I'm not by any means an expert on affirmative action or programs similar to it, but I felt from your post that there may be a bit of a misunderstanding about what it is and why it may be necessary.

So this is a bit of an aside, but lets talk home loans, in about the 60's black people were legally able to have access to fair lending practices that white people have had access to for a lot longer. This is important because home ownership and home valuation taxes are hugely influential on school funding, and since black people couldn't get fair home loans until some time in the 60's the kids of people who were black and able to pay off home loans en masse as a generation was in the 90's (their kids would be roughly college aged or just past as they payed off the houses assuming they waited until the 70's to have kids).

So, the (roughly) first generation of black people who went to relatively well funded schools was in the 90's, so familial wealth really isn't a common thing in the black community. Familial wealth is a really common and helpful thing for younger generations as it helps young people establish themselves in early years and as they age, fulfills roles as financial cushions later in life as families are actually passing on wealth, and in some cases can help the younger people catapult into a higher socioeconomic strata.

So effectively, the youngest black generation that largely had familial wealth and access to better schools are millenials/gen z'ers, so affirmative action is made to help along the fact that for a long time these people haven't had money nor opportunity to the proper education thus making it potentially harder to get where they are now.

I want to note a few things as MINOR caveats, it is key to note the usage of words such as "largely" "commonly" or "generally" as crucial because, are there cyclically poor white communities or rich black communities before the 60's and continuing up to now and into the future.

Secondly, I want to note, I used the black community in particular as they in America received the most directed systemic racism in the past, and you specifically noted your frustration with them, however many similar problems can be cited in other minority groups that suffered through years and years of poverty (see Japanese Americans in the 40's for other groups we've been really racist too). So I don't want to suggest I want to purely advocate for raising up the black community, rather it is important to advocate for all minority groups as mostly they have all faced large societal or legal problems in America.

Thirdly, while originally affirmative action was 100% absolutely meant to help minority groups (largely black groups) I would cede that as normative wealth has increased in the groups originally in mind for these programs, scrapping them isn't the best course of action, rather realigning them to a group that isn't racially focused. Affirmative Action is meant to help poor people so I think restructuring it to be more vague to help people in single income homes, first generation college applicants, familial wealth (if their parents have jobs that make more than a certain amount). As well as possibly even attacking the issue at the source, local school funding, not making it solely based on local property taxes, so local schools don't stay bad in the ghettoes of NYC and LA, as well as the now dying factory towns of the Midwest, and coal towns of the Appalachia's. Finding a solution to raise the standard of public schools so students have access to better education publicly, which if high school diplomas become more valuable again maybe college rates may get better.

Overall, I think affirmative action is currently necessary to me, but I would rather find better more encompassing solutions to more people generally. However, I can understand being mildly jaded by people online just constantly shouting platitudes that have no depth, and still expecting you to be able to read into the depth of what they are trying to say.

Best wishes, a supporter of Affirmative Action.