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The Case against Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action is a highly contentious issue which relates directly to the emotionally charged issue of race in America . A direct response to America 's history of racial oppression , Affirmative Action is designed to help compensate such groups as African Americans for the detainment and injury suffered by slavery , Jim Crow and general discrimination . However , its critics believe that Affirmative Action is unconstitutional and inappropriately uses race as a criteria for consideration of such things as school admission and hiring . The subject brings to bear a

great many viewpoints , with the discussion here gathering literature designed to represent the greatest array of said viewpoints

Education is justifiably regarded by politicians , activists and policy-makers as the access point to employment , social mobility and economic independence . Due to the firmly entrenched history of racial imbalance which has forged the United States of present day , education and its associated prospects have long been made available to white men with a degree of exclusivity that has severely handicapped the opportunities available to demographics such as African and Hispanic Americans . Indeed , categorized under the umbrella misnomer `minority these groups are not simply detained in their access to quality education , but often are steeped in cultural and economic conditions which do not encourage the pursuit of education at all

A lingering element of America 's racist past , our only recently integrated public schools continue to exist within a larger framework of segregation patterns . Though no longer legally enforced by Jim Crow the division in race is still harbored by public schools . To date , many attempts to curb the explicit racism of America 's past have been blunted by implicit cultural tendencies , especially in universities and places of employment , to limit minority access to those resources readily available for white students . Affirmative Action is one of the most contested officially sanctioned instruments for eroding the continued imbalance of opportunity for black and white students in the United States . Therefore , this discussion will address literature pertaining to this subject with an intent to identify the arguments against it and to illustrate that Affirmative Action is a problematic and unconstitutional approach to .addressing America 's issues of cultural racism

By and large , institutions with affirmative action policies set goals and timetables for increased diversity - and use recruitment , set-asides and preference as ways of achieving those goals (Froomkin , 1 ) From a legal standpoint , this approach has been considered by many to be a sensible way to begin to redress unconstitutional racism . Using preferential standards to help even the footing which gains minorities access to universities , the controversial subject stands as the most prominent legislative initiative to date instructed with the pretense of populating schools with more diverse student and faculty populations This method reflects an unprecedented diversion from preceding legal standards . Never has a majority of the Supreme Court recognized any interest compelling enough to justify using racial classifications except the interest of remedying the present effects of past discrimination (Cosner , 5 ) These laws have...