Affirmative action was brought into being after the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Education. Within ten years of the case’s dramatic judicial decision, Congress began to suppor

I realize that what happened over a hundred years ago was tragic for those minorities living through it; however, the minorities today have not gone through any of it. The minorities today in some respects have it better then the majority do. The minorities today in the area of schooling get special admission criteria with some schools and certain “minority only” scholarships. However, the moment that a school would come out with an all white (the majority) scholarship, the NAACP, and other civil rights activists, would call racism on that scholarship and it would be done away with. So then why is it that it isn’t considered racism for the afore mentioned “privileges” in accordance with minorities? Realizing that many of the minorities live in poverty would be one explanation about this, but when you think about it, some of the majority lives in poverty too, and vise versa some of the minorities live in wealth.

In the United States today, there isn’t segregation like there was back when Congress passed these statutes. There aren’t “all white schools” or “all black schools” in today’s society, so why the need to keep qualified students from achieving higher education in America’s universities and colleges? These institutions shouldn’t allow under-qualified students into their educational empire to meet a quota, just to make their college appear to be “diverse”. Several Supreme Court cases have involved these matters in the past decade: California vs. Bakke and Hopwood vs. State of Texas. In Bakke, a white male brought suit against the University of California at Davis Medical School on the grounds that in denying his school admission they discriminated against him on the basis of race. Bakke’s case went in front of the U.S. Supreme Court and Bakke was accepted into the university, however, he didn’t succeed in getting affirmative action declared unconstitutional. This was due to the fact that the court only rejected the procedures of the institution because it used both quotas and separate systems of admissions for minority students (Lowi, Ginsberg, and Shepsle 146). The court then set restrictions on how universities could use affirmative action, by saying that they still could take minority status into consideration, but they had to be careful with their usage of quotas. They could use quotas on

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