Here's why Proposition 209 should not be repealed: State-sponsored racial discrimination or recruitment techniques hurt the very people they claim to help – by stigmatizing recipients and watering down standards. And while the goal of Americans achieving a colorblind society sometimes seems out of reach – especially on nights when Michael Richards is doing stand-up comedy – it's an important objective to keep striving for. Besides, if the original goal of racial preferences was to give a leg up to the economically disadvantaged, well, that objective will only become muddier as more African-Americans and Latinos move out of poverty and into the middle class.