Affirmative Action Do What It Should By Dan Slatermarch Analysis

Sociology 2160-100The article “Does Affirmative Action Do What It Should?” by Dan Slatermarch asserts in many ways why affirmative action does work and why it doesn’t work. Clarence Thomas who is now an associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States stated reasons on why he opposed affirmative actions. In the article he told New York Times in 1982, “that affirmative action placed students in programs above their abilities (par 5).” He later on begin to assert how he watch the destruction of many kids when he was in college because of affirmative action. Scholars later begin to refer to his theory as mismatch being that it can harm students placing them in a school that they’re not smart enough to attend and therefore having a …show more content…
A law professor Daniel E. Ho at Stanford University disputed the mismatch theory. His response was “black law students who are similarly qualified when applying to law school perform equally well on the bar irrespective of what tier school they attend (par 16).” Another law professor Richard Brooks at Yale University believes that mismatch exists. On the other hand he believes that some mismatch might be a good thing. That striving alongside people will give them a since to work harder and do better. Professor Theodore Eisenberg at Cornell University assert how some people who do attend better schools because of affirmative action are more successful in life as a result and help other minorities thrive (par 25).” This shows that many professors agree that if there is affirmative action that it is here to help students, push them, and make them work harder. That is not here to make students do badly in elite schools, but to give them the opportunity to learn at a higher …show more content…
The first people that were for the theory had way more evidence and data. They showed numbers and actually conducted a research that showed how the students that went to their second choice school did better. The other people who were against the theory just had their opinions on the situations on why they believe it’s not real and why it’s a good thing if it was real. They didn’t have no actual data to back it up. In my own view I believe Affirmative Action I opposed it as well. Why send a student to an elite school knowing he might not do so well just to have him drop out? That’s basically setting a student up for failure. For instance in class we learned about the glass escalator. How men rise faster in women careers but women don’t rise fast in men careers. If people take this in account for students they would see how if you send a student who is not on the level that the school requires them to be. They would probably graduate late while the student who is already on that level would graduate on time. On the other hand it may be seen as injustice to some people if they can’t attend the school. For instance also in class we learned about the sticky floor. How many women and some men are stuck at the bottom of their jobs and can’t go any higher. By having affirmative action many