For a long time many minorities faced discrimination in the United States. Racial tensions hit it’s peak in 1950s and 60s. To fight discrimination, President Kennedy in 1961 signed an executive order creating affirmative action. Affirmative action required businesses and colleges to have a certain amount of minorities in admittance. In the following years since affirmative action, racism has dwindled away, but our society continues to hold on to affirmative action. This system once made to fight racism, has now, in and of itself, created racism to white people and “it” needs to be abolished.
Evidence to support this, from heritage.org, states, “In 2006, Michigan voters passed Proposal 2, also known as the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), …show more content…
Bollinger . . . involving the University of Michigan . . . and the Court focused on the system beginning in 1998 wherein the Admissions Office used "a 'selection index,' on which an applicant could score a maximum of 150 points." (12) The likelihood that a would-be student would receive an offer of admission would depend upon her total point score. "This index was divided linearly into ranges generally calling for admissions dispositions as follows: 100-150 (admit); 95-99 (admit or postpone); 90-94 (postpone or admit); 75-89 (delay or postpone); 74 and below (delay or reject)." (13)” (Strasser 2). This excerpt shows the University of Michigan’s system of choosing who to admit. A student who is black and got a 100, in their point system, would be admitted over a student who is white and got a 95. This sounds fair, but because minorities automatically get 20 points, that means the black person really got an 80. An 80 gives a white person a very low chance of acceptance. This case shows very well how a new discrimination to whites is being made, because despite someone getting a 95 in their points system, they would lose to someone who got 100, only because they are a
Evidence to support this, from heritage.org, states, “In 2006, Michigan voters passed Proposal 2, also known as the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), …show more content…
Bollinger . . . involving the University of Michigan . . . and the Court focused on the system beginning in 1998 wherein the Admissions Office used "a 'selection index,' on which an applicant could score a maximum of 150 points." (12) The likelihood that a would-be student would receive an offer of admission would depend upon her total point score. "This index was divided linearly into ranges generally calling for admissions dispositions as follows: 100-150 (admit); 95-99 (admit or postpone); 90-94 (postpone or admit); 75-89 (delay or postpone); 74 and below (delay or reject)." (13)” (Strasser 2). This excerpt shows the University of Michigan’s system of choosing who to admit. A student who is black and got a 100, in their point system, would be admitted over a student who is white and got a 95. This sounds fair, but because minorities automatically get 20 points, that means the black person really got an 80. An 80 gives a white person a very low chance of acceptance. This case shows very well how a new discrimination to whites is being made, because despite someone getting a 95 in their points system, they would lose to someone who got 100, only because they are a