Affirmative Action’s Downfall
Throughout America is there are many different views on affirmative action’s effects. Many see it as a negative policy which gives an unnecessary advantage to the minority races in America. In a 2009 Pew Poll, “58% of African Americans agree” and only “22% whites agree” that there should be “preferential treatment to improve the position of blacks and other minorities.”
Today affirmative action and other racial injustices tend to be in the spotlight quite often, such as the “Fisher v University of Texas at Austin” case which highlighted that many highly qualified white prospective students are passed over for less qualified minority students to attempt to make the university more diverse using the affirmative …show more content…
Steele calls out this “social engineering” where “quotas, timetables, set-asides” and other special rules are setup to improve them getting into a specific college or getting the job because of the need to diversify their organization or meet the requirement of a certain amount of necessary people by ethnicity. This is not usually fair and if they’re not qualified the not beneficial for the applicant or organization 's success. It is also called “reverse racism” because the “past discrimination against certain minority groups does not justify present discrimination against non-minorities.” For example, for one applicant to University of Michigan was declined admission and learned that they “reviewed applications submitted by black, Native American, and Hispanic applicants under one standard and those submitted by everyone else under a much higher standard” which played a part in his applicant being declined. This shows how the favoritism for the wrong reasons towards minorities is unfair. One medical school applicant, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, an Indian-American, temporarily changed his looks to appear african american and “began identifying himself as “black” on medical school applications” to boost his chances of acceptance. Chockal-Ingam says that, “I got into medical school because I said I was black” because of the “less …show more content…
Steele explains how “it is impossible to repay blacks today for the historic suffering of the race” and the affirmative action plan then just gives many the illusion that “it is something “owed,” a form of reparation.” The debate over how to understand and “repay” for the sacrifices and pain of the injustices “that started the day a handful of Africans stepped onto the shores of Jamestown in 1619” is still a heated topic today. Slavery, segregation and other unequal treatment left a giant scar and just cannot be repaid by affirmative action or anything
Throughout America is there are many different views on affirmative action’s effects. Many see it as a negative policy which gives an unnecessary advantage to the minority races in America. In a 2009 Pew Poll, “58% of African Americans agree” and only “22% whites agree” that there should be “preferential treatment to improve the position of blacks and other minorities.”
Today affirmative action and other racial injustices tend to be in the spotlight quite often, such as the “Fisher v University of Texas at Austin” case which highlighted that many highly qualified white prospective students are passed over for less qualified minority students to attempt to make the university more diverse using the affirmative …show more content…
Steele calls out this “social engineering” where “quotas, timetables, set-asides” and other special rules are setup to improve them getting into a specific college or getting the job because of the need to diversify their organization or meet the requirement of a certain amount of necessary people by ethnicity. This is not usually fair and if they’re not qualified the not beneficial for the applicant or organization 's success. It is also called “reverse racism” because the “past discrimination against certain minority groups does not justify present discrimination against non-minorities.” For example, for one applicant to University of Michigan was declined admission and learned that they “reviewed applications submitted by black, Native American, and Hispanic applicants under one standard and those submitted by everyone else under a much higher standard” which played a part in his applicant being declined. This shows how the favoritism for the wrong reasons towards minorities is unfair. One medical school applicant, Vijay Chokal-Ingam, an Indian-American, temporarily changed his looks to appear african american and “began identifying himself as “black” on medical school applications” to boost his chances of acceptance. Chockal-Ingam says that, “I got into medical school because I said I was black” because of the “less …show more content…
Steele explains how “it is impossible to repay blacks today for the historic suffering of the race” and the affirmative action plan then just gives many the illusion that “it is something “owed,” a form of reparation.” The debate over how to understand and “repay” for the sacrifices and pain of the injustices “that started the day a handful of Africans stepped onto the shores of Jamestown in 1619” is still a heated topic today. Slavery, segregation and other unequal treatment left a giant scar and just cannot be repaid by affirmative action or anything