Imagine you are indoors, avoiding a thunderstorm. You hear rain rattling on the roof; you look outside to see what seems to be a camera flash light up your street, quickly followed by a crackling boom. You walk through your living space, only to notice a small puddle on the floor. You examine the puddle and then look up at the ceiling for its origins, but your eyes are met with a droplet of water striking you on the forehead. There is a leak. Naturally, you walk into the kitchen, grab a kitchen pot, and align it underneath the leak. “Problem solved!”, you think to yourself. However, this solution you have devised is destined to fail; it is only a matter of time before the water overflows or the leak gets larger. You addressed the problem by directly solving the issues it causes, but failed to examine the larger details of fixing it fundamentally. Traditional Affirmative Action programs that the United States uses to solve discrimination in its educational system are kitchen pots
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This proposal aims to address the issue from the roof: a broader approach to Affirmative Action that accounts for economic status, that will target the success of minority students rather than quantifying them into a university’s demographic pie chart.
Why is the Roof Leaking?
For centuries leading up to the Civil Rights Movement, systematic racism, derived from slavery and Nativism, formed the basis of American society. Even following legal anti-discrimination with the 15th Amendment (enfranchised citizens of all color), Truman’s Executive Order 9981 which (desegregated the military), and Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of 1964 (desegregated labor), historic prejudices remained a topic of conflict. In the scope of education, racial discrimination has had tremendous influence over
This proposal aims to address the issue from the roof: a broader approach to Affirmative Action that accounts for economic status, that will target the success of minority students rather than quantifying them into a university’s demographic pie chart.
Why is the Roof Leaking?
For centuries leading up to the Civil Rights Movement, systematic racism, derived from slavery and Nativism, formed the basis of American society. Even following legal anti-discrimination with the 15th Amendment (enfranchised citizens of all color), Truman’s Executive Order 9981 which (desegregated the military), and Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of 1964 (desegregated labor), historic prejudices remained a topic of conflict. In the scope of education, racial discrimination has had tremendous influence over