... on Education. The Study which analyzed statistics from the U.S Department of Education, found that despite the greater numbers of minority students in college, blacks and Hispanics were behind whites and Asian Americans in graduation rates. It also found a gap between genders among blacks. From 1999 to 2000, college attendance among balck women under 25 increased 4%, to 43.9% but it declined for men ... a total minority enrollment in institutions of higher education had increased to 4 million in 1999 from 2.7 million in 1990, with gains of 68.3% among Hispanics, 31.6% among blacks and 5...

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... Asian. Under the affirmative action, they must employ someone who is underrepresented. This type of situation happens often. It is not the qualifications, but the color of the skin that employers look for today. Affirmative action is a step backwards. We are back to color and race differences. We are all Americans ... not commit the wrongs that were committed a generation ago. We should not punish them, but rather treat everyone fairly. We should treat everyone as Americans. As Bakke quotes the Constitution, "...The guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment extend to all persons. It's langua...

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... analyses. Classroom encounters of these kinds did not occur at "quality" educational institutions when I was a student of social science. Even when occasional non-European-Americans were in my classes, they were there to learn Western models and methods, not to teach and collaborate. What a lost opportunity for everyone -- students, ... by bringing in money, and many other things. If the university chose an athlete over me, I would not even question their move. An Asian-American high school student Amy S. Cheung describes the paradox that schools face with enrollment. "Looking at them a...

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... to end racial inequality. There were also continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation through the courts. Following the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push for equality. In 1952 the Supreme Court was approached by four states, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, challenging ... King accepted the compromises and considered the movement a victory. J. F. Kennedy addressed the American public on national television, promising to call on congress to pass laws that permitted all Am...

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... of alumni of many universities. Because affirmative action gives preferences to certain races, then there is nothing more to work hard for. People: White, Black, Asian, Spanish, and many other races, have all worked very hard to get to where they are. Just because one is male, or just because one is ... considered in the work place is that, according to the Washington Post, out of 1700 people surveyed randomly, 92% of women, and 84% of African Americans agreed that race and gender shouldn't be an issue when being hired for a job. People in general would rather earn their job than have it...

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... surveys to hand out. I surveyed thirteen males and seven females all-varying in race. I surveyed five different races: African American, Latino, Caucasian, Asian American, Middle Eastern, and Indian. I surveyed twenty five percent African Americans, twenty five percent Caucasians, fifteen percent Asian Americans, twenty percent Latinos and fifteen percent were of other races. None of the people I asked refused to take the survey. The majority ... earnings similarity with college-educated white women, college- educated black men earn 76% of the earnings of their white male counterparts (...

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... an ethical standpoint. But it is also great for business. Why, you ask? Companies can benefit from a multicultural workforce's expertise. For instance, if your company does business in Asia, having Asian-Americans on your negotiating team will greatly improve your chances of success. 1Allied Signal discovered this when it successfully negotiated to sell wheels to China Eastern Airlines. Much of its success ... was due to the presence of Chinese-Americans on the sales team. Allied Signal and dozens of organizations like it have learned that diversity is a wonderful asset when competing i...

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Martin Luther King once told Americans of his dream that one day the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners would sit down together at the table of ... . Affirmative Action was made up in order to make up for the discrimination against African Americans in earlier times. Back in those times it was necessary because African Americans were not equal at all. They had always had a lower education; therefore African Americans needed affirmative action to even receive an equal opportunity to get into college. Right now ... college campuses are six percent African Americans and wi...

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IN 1996 Barbara Gutter, who is white, applied for admission to the University of Michigan's Law School. She was denied. After investigating she found out that African Americans and ethnic minorities who had lower overall admissions scores were admitted. The admissions procedure is based on a points system. The points system is an admissions criteria, which is based on ... student body in colleges and universities." Numerous people would also agree that the points system for admission is corely unconstitutional. The constitution was put in place to protect all people: Asian, Cocacion, Africa...

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... contract. The track record speaks for its self. Women and blacks were continually discriminated against at all levels. Now Article VII of the Civil Rights Act encompasses all new immigrants, Asian Americans, and Hispanics. These aforementioned groups, which have no significant history of being discriminated against here, in the United States, are entitled to these privileges. Now just to so call level ... ...

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... of students. Examples of these are: At the University of California at Berkeley, black and Hispanic students are up to twenty times more likely to be accepted for admission than Asian American applicants who have the same academic qualifications. At Ivy League colleges, incoming freshmen have average grade scores close to 4.0 and average SATs of 1,250 to 1,300. According to admissions ... for the individual favoring minority groups." (Davidio, A60) In situations where there are personal consequences, discrimination is still more likely to occur. In the last thirty years, surveys indicat...

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