So what exactly does "plus " mean when referring to one's race in the eyes of a university? ... As Gary Becker, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, puts it, "I am not trying to minimize the terrible treatment especially of African-Americans in the past. I am questioning whether affirmative action programs make up for past injustices"(Becker). ...

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Plaskett stated, "You see, I"m a Southerner and the word offends me," she says, "Because when I was growing up it was a very hateful, very hurtful word. ... So I would like to never hear the word again." ... When I was in school all I learn about blacks history was that Harriet Tubeman freed 300 slaves, Martin Luther King's "I have a speech" and how Rosa Parks started the boycott on buses in the south. ... I know that I am not a "nigga" and that no human being deserves to be called a "nigga," whether it's used by blacks or others, it is historically tied to the intention of putting b...

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