oppressing them for hundreds of years. Others say that the United States has reached that point a long time ago and any continuation of this is reverse racism. Many feel that minorities should earn their way to top of the socioeconomic ladder as they had to do and their ancestors did. There was a famous case of reverse discrimination in the Bakke Case, where Allan Bakke, a white male, had bee rejected two years in a row by a medical. The medical school had accepted less qualified students than Allan Bakke because of their ethnicity and had an entirely different admissions policy for them. This was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and outlawed inflexible quota systems in affirmative action programs, but affirmative action itself was still deemed legal.
             What presidential candidate John Kerry believes is that racial equality can be achieved through Affirmative Action. African Americans and other minority groups are misrepresented in the workplace and in educational facilities. Ever since the nation has become integrated the minorities have been at a disadvantage because they have been expected to prosper from nothing. These practices, started by President Johnson, are the government's way of helping the disadvantaged minorities of the United States. Johnson stated," It is not enough to just open the gates of opportunity... all our citizens must have the abilit
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