Is there a left-wing critique of Affirmative Action?

Comment published on New York Times blog, in response to news article by Anemona Hartocollis, “The liberal maverick fighting race-based Affirmative Action,” March 29, 2023:

There is a "left" possibility in politics that American liberalism ignores.

America has enormous race resentment, most on the part of Black people. It is defended by white liberals who have little to lose taking the positions they do, while usually living far apart from the people they blithely champion. Black racism has become acceptable; one often hears talk about the "white" society (a huge simplification), and since that can only mean "white people," one is constantly reminded that it's all our fault. I have many times been assaulted or threatened with violence by people who hate my race. Someone has told them I "oppress" them. It's a lie. Of course for liberals, I must not speak of it, because that is "racist." It's not "true" if not nice.

Affirmative Action has helped cement the prevalent attitude that anyone who is Black is automatically oppressed and, worse, anyone who is White is automatically to be considered 'privileged' and an 'oppressor', just by living their life. Such thinking enforces the racial divide, with nothing to unite us. "Capitalism," anyone?

Do poor Blacks, women, etc. suffer from too few of them in the upper elite? It's as if a bunch of serfs were offered the choice of electing one of their own as king, instead of abolishing serfdom. This is the capitalist liberal approach to inequality, which focuses on representation, identity, and status, while changing: nothing. A class politics could target the system instead.