... a result, minorities - African Americans in particular - have exclusively benefited from policies and programs aimed at narrowing this social gap between minorities and majorities. The policy of affirmative action in college admissions, and its relation to employment and narrowing social inequalities between minorities and majorities, however, is inherently unjust. In this paper, I will attempt to explain why affirmative action is ... social disadvantage as compared to those of the majority. It would be further argued that some mechanism for taking these social disadvantages into accoun...

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... , etc be replaced by what he characterizes as "affirmative opportunity". In support of this he writes, "For example, recent studies reveal that, although they oppose such preferential racial policies as college admission quotas or job hiring and promotion strategies designed to achieve equal outcomes, most white Americans approve of such opportunity-enhancing affirmative action policies as race-targeted programs for job ... ...

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