Pros And Cons Of Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action When students go through admissions processes every year should their merit or their last name be the indicator as to whether or not they get in? Every year applicants, particularly college applicants, go through a process of admissions to get accepted into the best universities all over the world. This process is however biased towards certain minorities in order to fulfill an ethnicity quotient due to affirmative action. Affirmative action was originally a mean to satiate the minority population that was systematically being disadvantaged due to the poverty and lower levels of income that these minorities often had. However this merely had an opposite effect disadvantaging minorities that are consistently doing well such …show more content…
This results in affirmative action proponents to claim that affirmative action helps bridge the gap and even out the playing field to compensate for years of systemic oppression. Proponents state that minorities need a chance to prove themselves just as capable as the population who have continuously benefitted from the “system”. However, affirmative action only goes to further deteriorate a minority’s reputation in both the workforce an academic environment. The very existence of affirmative action gives a connotative message that minorities are not able to secure jobs without the existence of it. Hence, why affirmative action should be banned to truly merit minorities for their effort. American colleges already give a significant emphasis on background regardless of race but rather economic environment. What the existence of affirmative action results in is it creates an excuse to disregard hard work of different minorities and lay credit within the system for their merits rather than the individual’s work. This can potentially create an even bigger divide and segregation between the minorities who “benefit” from the system and the white population