existed as a means of creating equality between the masses. Before the mid to late sixties,

only the words of Mr. King acted as a threshold between discrimination between different

classes of individuals. Currently, affirmative action may be said to be a child of the civil

right’s movement, which began with Mr. King. Despite the fact that affirmative action, or

better known as equity, was designed as a an aid for minorities, many groups today see it

as a deterrence in present day social systems. Although the program was first initiated for

positive purposes, any new form of movement, which involves favouritism of a certain

race, comes along with the glaring eyes of a distrustful nation.

A notable case is the 1978 Bakke decision involving the University of California’s

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