Jonah Goldberg explains why college admissions offices shouldn't consider the race of applicants, but should be free to consider whether the applicants' parents have given money to the school:

People say, 'well, why should we be neutral on race when people aren't neutral about whose family gave more money to a school and all the rest?' And there's a longer answer, but a short answer is simply that, you know, we fought a civil war over race. We amended the constitution a couple of times because of race. We had the civil rights act because of race. Seems to me that race is different, and that we've learned from bitter experience with lots of dead people that government getting in the business of picking winners and losers by race is a bad way to go.

Got that? Because African Americans used to be enslaved, because they used to be denied voting rights, because they used to be prevented from using “white” facilities, Goldberg thinks it would be inappropriate for a college to accept a qualified black applicant over a white kid. But, by all means, keep giving such advantages to legacy children of wealthy (and, probably, white) parents.