... achieving their full potential by not only focusing on their grades and test scores. Affirmative action focuses on the individuals race and personal setbacks, such as their economic state. The fact that it revolves around whether you are Black, Hispanic, ... racial intent. It is used to fill a quota, to create diversity, but the negative outcomes outweigh the positives. Minority students who do not meet the minimum requirements for prestigious schools are being accepted in order to create diversity, but ... 263). Students should be rewarded for their academic achievements and improvemen...

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... (Bundy 9-15-2000). Alan Bakke, a white man turned down for admission to the Medical School at The University of California, claimed his rights were violated when he did not receive an opening even though his grades and test scores were higher than the minorities (9-15-2000). "The Justice Department contended that applying such standards constituted reverse discrimination against white males" (Ashmore ... 311). Affirmative action should not admit a minority based on color or gender but rather on test standards. "Although rarely acknowledged, it was no less insulting to ... be forced to a...

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... . This policy would also create programs or some type of training to help minorities and women improve their competitive status in the workforce. Once implemented businesses and schools were to select students or employers strictly on qualifications not race or gender. At first this sounded like a very good plan but as time passed affirmative action almost became an unfair advantage for minorities ... their qualifications. An example of affirmative action used unfairly was in the case of a young man named Bakke. Mr. Bakke couldn't get into medical school because there were only 16 seats ...

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... prospect for admission to higher education, entry-level hiring, and job promotion. The prohibiting experienced by women and people of a different color, race, and originality is especially revealing of larger patterns. The race and gender based prohibiting that is the object of current affirmative action policies remain the most noticeable examples of prejudice in apparently impartial selection processes. Offensive in themselves ... can be interpreted in a variety of ways: for an example, as a matter of desert (because they were next inline, based on established criteria of selection, t...

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... which we continue institutional racism. Race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual preference, socio-economic status, standardized test scores, lineage and disability. These characteristics, nor any other, individually or collectively, should ever solely determine the decision of employment, membership, or educational growth. However, each of the characteristics of persona should be taken into consideration in determining the most qualified candidates for employment, membership ... country there have been millions of unjust incidences of discrimination, wrong doings and even cases of murd...

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... programs have been defined by ethnicity, gender, and even sexual orientation. Populary called affirmative action, in reality, it is an unfair racist quota system. In 1964, during the senate debate on the proposed civil rights act of that year, the bills floor manager, Hubert Humphrey, "assured the Senate that nothing in (Title VII of) the bill would permit any official or courtto ... supposedly been held down by official policy has turned into a program of racial, ethnic and gender favortism. Since competitive employment is a zero-sum game, the requirement to to employ a member of a favo...

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... should not give an unfair advantage to equally qualified students or applicants simply because of their race or gender. The only viable way to create a truly equitable society is to expand programs that give assistance to the economically disadvantaged. Though these measures, the lower-class, which has traditionally been composed of a large percentage of minorities, will be able to ... will lead to greater diversity, which from a social and biological standpoint can be beneficial. However, this is rarely the case with affirmative action. According to the NIF booklet, a white firefighter...

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