From the Content of Our Character: A new Vision of Race in America, author Shelby Steele briefly tells her point of view on this subject. Affirmative action is a "preferential treatment" used to balance or "proportionate racial representations" in the society today. The price of preference is the illusion that will be created. One of the evidences she presented was her watching an illusion at work in a mother of a middle black kid implying that "they owe" them this. Which is some sort of justification for

affirmative action. The bigger issue arises whether the preferential treatment is lowering normal standards to increase minority representation. Steele also believes that "preferential treatment

resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Dinesh D'Souza, who goes by the saying that most minorities should be stigmatized because they owe their success to affirmative action. Another example Page used is the University of Indiana Law School's use of affirmative action in 1960 to widen its acceptance criteria for disadvantaged candidates who shows potential of succeeding. One of those disadvantaged students was a graduate named J. Danforth Quayle, who later became Vice President of the United States.

does not teach skills, or educate, or instill motivation."

Affirmative action is a proposition not to be used lightly. I agree with Steel's point of view, that affirmative action is the not the solution to today's racial inequality.

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