Affirmative Action

Affirmative action is a comprised plan created by local and state governments to “fight fire with fire.” It is supposed to stop discrimination against the blacks, but at the same time is just another step back towards discrimination against the white majority. In other words, it is a plan to help minorities in getting the same privileges as the majority, mainly focused on blacks and whites. “Reverse discrimination” through affirmative action is unfair to the majority in public school admissions when it is supposed to help society.

Since the 1960’s, a program called affirmative action was enacted in a few public high schools and universities throughout the states, mainly in California and Texas. It has caused a major controversy, in the fact that it uses a racial preference among admissions to these schools. When high test scores, personal merit, and leadership that a white person (majority) can accomplish are put aside to allow a minority enter the same competition (admission) just to meet a racial quota, “reverse discrimination” comes into play. It is unfair to overlook these exceptional achievements, because of a wr

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Turner L. After the program was discarded, the article concluded that “the total number of blacks graduating would still be about the same as under preferences [affirmative action],” which would make the program pointless. Affirmative action, as he explains, is a “redistributive [measure] that enhances the standard of living and quality of life for the have-nots and have-too-littles” (93).

Another example of this was when an elite Lowell High School based in San Francisco tried a different answer to the admissions process of giving minorities advantages by setting up an economic background bias in helping dispute the policy instead. The program is using an illness to fight another illness, and it just won’t cure the “black” plague. “Racial diversity” just cannot be achieved by means of preferring a race over another, and allowing a minority to enter a specialized field of education, when they don’t have the specific skills required. They represented a Cheryl Hopwood that didn’t get into the UT Law School because of her race (being white), even though she had higher test scores then the minorities the UT Law School let in. Lowell High School, as of today, has yet to come up with a satisfactory plan to meet their goals, but as long as the government is involved in this issue, they will not accomplish much. Cheryl Hopwood, a University of Texas student, was one example of this action in1992.

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