On Affirmative Action

As many of you may know, Barak Obama graduated Harvard Law School Magna Cum Lauda. As a child living on food stamps in his early ages, he showed great promise.Because of the poor area he grew up in, and his family circumstances, there would have been no way he could have gone to Harvard without affirmative action (albeit he did attend a prep school). But this is not a bashing of Obama nor affirmattive action, merely a comment on the past. It worked, he is now president. Furthermore, it should be eradicated now because it has come full circle, a man who 50 years ago would have been segregated now has great power, he is the quintential maverick.
Now that we know it worked, the program should be disabled. Although they are exceptions, some minorities hide behind affirmative action. It is a fact that an African-American in a poor area has a much better chance of going to an Ivy-League University with financial aide and scholorships than a white person in an affluent suburb, even thought the latter probabaly went to a better school.
This is my opinion, what do you think? I have yet to hear any compelling arguements for affirmative action that do not have something to do with segregation, newsflash: the students benefiting from the program never experienced it.