Kathryn Jean Lopez has an editorial on NRO which details and responds to many of the aspects of the Akaka Bill. Another interesting read. She also has an interesting quote Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia made in 1995:
To pursue the concept of racial entitlement - even for the most admirable and benign of purposes - is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of the government, we are just one race here. We are American.