The Reinstatement of the UC Admissions Policy is Unnecessary

Many minorities have been mistreated in the past and in some way they still are, but that does not give us the right to discriminate whites just because they discriminated minorities before. Focusing on African Americans, they were discriminated through slavery. Slavery did not end till the end of the Civil War. Many people ignore the fact that “for several hundred years, Negroes have been discriminated against not as individuals, but rather solely because of the color of their skins.” Government must find a way to stop discrimination from happening. The University of California formally adopted race and ethnicity as factors in the admissions process in 1964 (Douglass, 241). By adopting the race factor into the admissions process affirmative action at the UC was admitted. There are many different definitions for affirmative action. Affirmative action are laws that give a remedy for current and past discrimination to promote diversity, or to do something else (Edley, 231). Affirmative action is also any efforts taken to expand opportunity for women or racial, ethnic and national origin minorities by using membership in those groups that have been subjects

Justice Powell believes that the Harvard program is constitutional because the program takes race into consideration but does not have a whole separate program just for minorities. To Powell, the Harvard program is constitutional because it does not use race as a separate factor in admissions program. Every applicant goes through the same program. However, this is wrong because according to Justice Stevens, Justice Stewart, and Justice Rehnquist the program should not even take race into consideration because it is unconstitutional and violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by excluding whites from having a fair admissions system. The UC Davis program consisted of a separate admissions system from the original one. The regular admissions procedure rejected candidates whose overall grade point average fell below 2.5 on a scale of 4.0. They also had interviews for some candidates and their overall scores included all grade point averages and standardized test scores. The special admissions program works in another way. On top of the regular admissions, the Davis program also had a section where applicants can check off if they wanted to be considered as an “economically and educationally disadvantaged” applicant (188).

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