... to hire isn't advocated excepts where a court of law has unmistakable evidence convicting someone of racial or gender discrimination. Women and minorities just want employers and schools offering a better education and better job opportunities. Minorities do not want to feel that have been given jobs because of this policy, nor are ... first this sounded like a very good plan but as time passed affirmative action almost became an unfair advantage for minorities, employers where hiring and accepting minorities strictly based on race or gender not their qualifications. An example of affir...

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... citizens have fallen victim to the policy as more and more people are being hired and excepted into colleges due their minority status rather than qualification or merit. In a recent sociological study of prestigious colleges it was found that the odds of a African-American being admitted into any program compared to that of a white man with the same credentials was an average ... 30 to 1 (charez). Fredrick R. Lynch (a renowned and prestigious writer on the subject of social issues) compared Affirmative Action to a steam roller that couldn ... case of Gratz vs. Bollinger a young white ...

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