"I was told twice that I couldn't be promoted during my corporate years because I was white and male," he says. "So I went where you could succeed just with talent, and I didn't need to be a certain color or gender." Scott Walker: Affirmative action isn't a clean win for black people; it's not a clean win because there's a little taint. But we've closed the gap enough that the best thing you could do for the black community would be to get rid of favoritism", he says.