The AC already answered you. You can't just pick the Affirmative Action part and say, "Yeah, I'll take that." You get the whole enchilada. You get to grow up going to relatively poor schools, you get to have your resume ignored because your name sounds black, you get to wonder if that loan rejection was because of your skin, you get to be followed around by security in nice stores, you get to live with the fact that many people attribute your successes to lower standards (e.g., what you just did to that black pilot).

I'm just scratching the surface. I'm white, so I can't imagine the the extent of the hardships that are imposed on minorities in this country. But I'm honest enough to recognize that being born white is a big head-start.

Are you still willing to trade places?