The Rights Of American Bakke Essay

“No one in our society should suffer because he is a member of a group thought less worthy of respect, as a group, than other groups” (Dworkin, p.447). This is an important principle that the reader takes away from Dworkin’s article, “The Rights of Allan Bakke”, the case of white male who applies for medical school at the University of California at Davis and is rejected. Bakke was upset that he was rejected and blamed the university’s affirmative action program as the reason he was denied entry. Bakke believed that this program denied him of his constitutional rights and when he brought his case to the California Supreme Court, the court ruled in favor of Bakke and he was awarded entrance to the school. Dworkin argues that Bakke was wrong in believing his constitutional rights were denied by the affirmative action program on the basis that America has become a racially conscious society. As a result of this type of society, racial justice is a special need that the affirmative action program attempts to address. …show more content…
Allan Bakke”. This is because they believed it was their responsibility to the nation to address the issue of America’s racially conscious society (Dworkin, p.441). According to Dworkin, affirmative action programs have been accused of attempting to divide American society into racial and ethnic sub-nations, a terrible misunderstanding that is completely contradictory to the program’s desired goals. The immediate goal of affirmative action programs is to increase the number of members of certain races in these professions, while the long-term goal is to reduce the degree to which American society is overall a racially conscious society (Dworkin,