White Men Can't Trump

Although it has been used frequently and occasionally upheld by the courts, affirmative action is an illegal process that violates the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The equal protection clause of the fourteenth Amendments states, ““No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges… of citizens of the United States.” T

Since race does becomes a factor in determining employment, promotions, and admission, however, the prominence of racism actually lingers and grows instead of diminishing. As Justice O’Connor said in response to Richmond v. Croson in 1989, “The dream of a Nation of equal citizens in a society where race is irrelevant to personal opportunity and achievement would be lost in a mosaic of shifting preferences based on inherently immeasurable claims of past wrongs.” (Goldman, Richmond). O’Connor is realizing that, while people complain about racism, affirmative action does not resolve the issue at all. If anything it just prolongs it because it makes race remain as a factor in society. Until admissions officers and employers stop asking for race on applications, it will always be a factor just as much as anything else on the application is. Although the policies of affirmative action may have originally meant to correct past discrimination and civil rights injuries, many of the benefactors of these policies were born into a “legally privileged class” that have not suffered the social and political injuries of their ancestors, but because of affirmative action policies our country is facing a state of “reverse discrimination” where the majority suffers in favor of a minority (Roberts, 3). Not only are minority races receiving equal treatment from the law, they often times receive unfair benefits that harm more qualified citizens. This use of race to determine employment and admissions does not lessen the separation between races, but maintains it by still allowing a race to suffer in the shadow of another. Instead of using programs such as affirmative action, which corrects for past civil injuries, the government should focus on more pressing immediate racial issues. As Walter Williams puts it in his article Affirmat

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