A conservative argument that affirmative action has become unfair discrimination against white and other Americans, framed as bad policy that betrays civil rights ideals.

• The claim: today's racial quotas favoring non-whites amount to a new Jim Crow, just aimed the other way.
• The counter-argument raised — that Black Americans start behind because of slavery — is dismissed by pointing to income data.
• White Americans rank only fifth or sixth in income; the average Nigerian immigrant reportedly out-earns the average white American.
• A key twist: most Black people in the U.S. will soon be recent immigrants, not descendants of American slaves, so blanket race-based preferences make little sense.
• The proposed fix is simple — government should treat everyone the same, the way the civil rights movement intended.

Outlook: Expect this "colorblind" framing to keep fueling legal and political fights over race-based programs as America's demographics shift.