It is October of 2003. A young African American man is about to make a decision that will dictate and impact the rest of his life. Thus far this is probably the most important decision that he will make in his life. This decision is deciding which colleges to apply to and eventually attend. At this time however there is chaos surrounding the admissions of minority students to colleges. The problems’ cause and solution is Affirmative Action.

The young African American man agrees with everything that Affirmative Action provides and stands for. He Views it as a protector and guardian against inequality and fairness. This young man looks at the average statistics of minority students and sees that the test scores are incredibly low along with their GPA’s. Then he views himself and realizes that his 1100 SAT score and 3.6 GPA has some type of meaning and “pull” in this college thing. He is also attending a predominantly white all-male school and taking college level classes. Due to Affirmative Action, should he be admitted to some of the more prestigious schools to meet a quota or to add more “ethnic diversity” to the school?

The second scenario concerns two students

who have just graduated from college and are in the process of applying to graduate school. One is more qualified than the other, but the other is accepted into a medical school in order to meet a quota. Imagine! Five years down the road you need tp have surgery. Which doctor would you rather have operate on you, the one who is more qualified or the one accepted in order to meet a quota?

Those that want to get rid of Affirmative Action need to realize that it will go away only when racism and discrimination go away, and as Martin Luther King said “judged by content of character and not color of skin.”

By giving the inner city child the opportunity at a better education we are in fact helping the unqualified person become qualified. Even after the unqualified become qualified there will still be a need for Affirmative Action because there will always be discrimination, but at least now we couldn’t use the excuse of the one person being more qualified than the other (Porter 70).

What is Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action was created to ensure that minority students and workers would have the same opportunities that whites would have, and also ensure that colleges and work places have a variety of different cultures and backgrounds (Wolfe 32).

Two of the largest states in the union, Texas and California have already made Affirmative Action illegal. The following statistics are from two very elite universities of California campuses, Berkeley, and UCLA. AT Berkeley, the number of black freshmen declined 57% in 1999, And a massive 40% for Hispanics. AT UCLA the numbers were 43% decline for blacks and 33% for the Hispanics. The numbers are startling (Krauthhammer 30).

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