n asked, "why not let the government help them
             get better jobs?" After all, the White Man was responsible for their suffering.
             While this may all be true, there is another question to be asked. Are we truly
             responsible for the years of persecution that the African Americans and other
             Minorities were submitted to? I am not so sure.
             It is true that past generations of White Men are partly responsible
             for the suppression of the African-American race. However, the modern White
             Male is not responsible for the past. It is just as unfair and suppressive to
             hold White Males responsible for past persecution now, as it was to discriminate
             against many African-Americans in the generations before. Why should an honest,
             hard-working, open minded, White Male be suppressed, today, for past injustice?
             Affirmative Action, in it's current function seems to accept and condone the
             idea of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Do two wrongs really make a
             right? Definitely not, in my opinion. If Affirmative Action accomplished
             strictly what it was set out to do, that would be fine, but all it seems to be
             doing is turning around the tables, instead of alleviating the problem a
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