nce prevented from doing. However, no one thought about all the white majority who were being displaced because of the influx of minorities in the schools and jobs that whites once went to and held. The upcoming white majorities were beginning to feel the pressure of entering the work force and schools. Whites were beginning to feel like they were being treated unfairly solely because they were white. Whites began to decry that affirmative action was reverse discrimination towards their group and felt that the conditions were now unfair. One such example occurred in 1978 where Allan Bakke, a white applicant to the University of California, Davis was rejected twice from the medical school even though there were minority applicants accepted that had lower scores than his (Kahlenberg 85). Bakke argued that judging him on the basis of his race was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen Amendment. The case went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ruled that affirmative action was unfair if it led to reverse discrimination. This set precedence for limitations to affirmative actions to ensure that providing more opportunities for minorities did not come at the expense of the majority.
             Since the Bakke ruling, there have been numerous incidents where affirmative action has been viewed as unfair towards the majority. It only paved way for more cases of injustice caused by affirmative action programs. Many experts including, Richard D. Kahlenberg, began to think about how we should change this injustice of using racial preference. He suggested the idea of class-based affirmative action so that the system would be colorblind and instead focus on people with financial disadvantages. Class-based was also suggested by Martin Luther King Jr., he valued that idea because he knew that the majority of Blacks were in the lower class (Kahlenberg 86). King felt that affirmative action was only good if it utilized ...