First I would like to make a few statements of what Affirmative Action does: Affirmative action requires (or permits) racial and/or gender quotas to be used in place of merit selection. Affirmative action requires selection of unqualified persons for jobs, schools and commercial contracts. The most common victims of discrimination today are white men. Affirmative action is intended to counter-act the discrimination of the past, not the present; it thus requires today's white men to pay for discrimination which they did not cause and from which they did not benefit.That basically sums up what affirmative action is doing today.
             The debate about affirmative action dates at least to the 1940s, but it was not popularized as a remedy for discrimination until it was adopted by the federal government in the 1960s. At that time, a part of the debate was whether quotas should be used as a remedy to counteract discrimination. As a theoretical question, this may still be of interest. But as a practical concern, the debate was laid to rest in 1978 when the Supreme Court ruled in the Bakke case that government-sponsored racial quotas violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Like it or not, affirmative action quotas are illegal, and have been for seventeen years.
             Polls increasingly report that whites, and particularly white men, believe that there is more discrimination today against white men than any other group.Affirmative Action supporters try to argue this by showing statistics like the following: A Latina woman with a college degree earns less, on average, than a white man with only a high school diploma. A black male college graduate earns less than 80% as much as his white male counterpart. Over 50% of black children, compared to under 15% of white children, live in poverty.
             In audits conducted in San Diego, Chicago and Washington D.C., when matched teams of job seekers responded to wan
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