Welcome back!
Sometimes we just don't know what's going on people's lives and so we worry. I worried about you and i'm glad everything seems to be okay - healthwise and otherwise!
And yes,AAs will survive this like we've done before. And let's not forget that we excelled BEFORE Affirmative Action.
I dare say that most of the best AA intellectuals & scholars & scientists emerged before Affirmative Action, like Du Bois, Booker T., Carver, Chancellor, Schomburg, the female mathematicians at NASA etc etc etc
Yep, gotta keep moving!