Intro: To start off, I would like to present a quote from Historian, Roger Wilkins. "Blacks have a 375-year history on this continent: 245 involving slavery, 100 involving legalized discrimination, and only 30 involving anything else."
             This quote makes you think, That's a rough history to go through. The next thing that comes to your mind should be, well have things gotten better? And the answer is yes and no. Yes, we have come a long way, and No, there are still many things wrong.
             Affirmative Action is unfortunately abused but not using this law effectively outweighs the abuse in America.
             To prove our argument, we have 2 types of evidence to present to you. One is outrageous statistics and the other actual cases to back up those statistics.
             Case 1: First of all, this statistic comes from an article in the Washington Post.
              Of the 91,183 discrimination complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in fiscal 1994, 89,816 minorities, which included women and 1,367 white males, alleged that they had been discriminated against because of their race.
              Further, a draft study of discrimination cases handled by the U.S District and appellate courts conducted for the labor department indicates that a "high proportion " of reverse discrimination claims are "without merit".
              "You can't make the case that this {backlash} is quotas," said California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D). "The explanation for why people view it that way is the scapegoat phenomenon."
              Doesn't this tell you something? That yeah Affirmative Action may be abused in isolated situations, but overall, these statistics don't lie in showing that there is an overwhelming amount of Minorities which includes women that are still being Discriminated against.
             Case 2: Second, Obviously something is barring women and minorities from reaching the
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