Absofrickinlutely. It's funny how we just dance and dance and dance around that issue. The Dahlia Lithwick/W Dellinger discussion at Slate has a similar/related point about honesty re affirmative action.
Affirmative action is still immoral because it is anti-merit. Our responsibility is to the human merit of today, not the unknown inheritances of the nameless dead. Therefore we should be anti-affirmative action and anti-quota, not try to compete in terms of whose ancestors have suffered, as if the suffering of the long-dead were a value.