... in reverse. In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. A second idea against affirmative action is the idea ... minus) or SATs over 830, well below the national average for all who took the test. Asians and whites, by contrast, needed a 3.8 GPA or an SAT above 1,200 to have better than 90% chance of admission [in 1996]" (Thernstrom). In 1997, the UCLA School of Medicine had ove...

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... . Selection among comparably qualified candidates is as follows: a minority student with an 1100 on their SAT's compared to a white student who scored a 1120 is hardly a significant amount. Predictions of the general population with scores comparable in this range will not be affected by such trivial differences in scores. The most radical form of affirmative action that should be addressed is selecting unqualified minority ... : Cornell University Press 1991. Forman Jr., J. Saving Affirmative Action. Academic Search Premier. Nation, 12/9/91, Vol. 253 Issue 20, p746, 2p Reverse Discrimina...

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... preferential treatment and insults anyone who is beneficiary of this practice" (Jenkins, 1999, 178). Affirmative action in educational facilities promotes a feeling a reverse discrimination in which whites and Asians with higher SAT scores and grades are denied an education at a prestigious school to fulfill a quota of minorities (Williams, 1997, 173). Affirmative action is not only disappointing in creating equality in schools, it also ... of affirmative action over thirty years ago, not much progress has been made. Perhaps the best solution to this dilemma is to abolish the policy of ...

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... of a race war, state officials were unable to suppress the violence. Law enforcement officials were Klan members themselves and even when the law officers were legitimate, Klan members also sat on juries where criminally accused members were often acquitted.(Harrel,47-52) The Klan was popularized through literature and film in the early nineteenth century. Its influence spread with help ... from Thomas B. Dixon's The Clansman (1905) and D.W. Griffith's movie The Birth of a Nation (1915). (Harrel, 85) Harrel felt that this eventually "led to the establishment of a new Ku Klux Klan, which...

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