Affirmative Action

In the case of Gratz vs. Bollinger the Supreme Court ruled that such and act was unconstitutional. Petitioners Gratz and Hamacher, both of whom are Michigan residents and Caucasian, applied for admission to the University of Michigan’s (University) College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) in 1995 and 1997, respectively. Although the LSA considered Gratz to be well qualified and Hamacher to be within the qualified range, both were denied early admission and were ultimately denied admission” (Gratz, pp.1). The University’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) “considers a number of factors in making admissions decisions

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An African American man with no experience is up against a Caucasian man with years of knowledge for the same job, the African American has an advantage though, his race. Many minorities that are admitted to school for the reason of race are just not qualified enough to get in on skills which is why affirmative action was established. The University will admit all qualified applicants from African American, Hispanic, and Native American backgrounds giving them 20 of the 100 points needed for admissions.

Affirmative action may at one point have been needed just to give minorities an equal chance to the same education as Caucasians but now it is no longer needed. “One of the ideal facts of life is that on ideal, racially blind admissions program based on predictions of academic success would virtually exclude black and Mexican American applicants from the best American professional schools” (Green, Jr. That in itself is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen Amendment and is there for unlawful. Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the court which states, “we find that the manner in which the University considers the race of applicants in its undergraduate admissions guidelines violates these constitutional and statutory provisions” (Gratz, pp. The Law School uses “special reference to the inclusion of African American, Hispanic, and Native American students who otherwise might not be represented in the student body” (Grutter, pp.

Just as was stated in the beginning of this essay, Frederick Douglas argued that “racial quotas…promote ‘an image of blacks as privileged wards of the state’” (O’Conner, pp. Race should not be a factor because it is a form of discrimination.

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