equality and to eliminate discrimination would indeed accomplish the opposite? While

there are those who are within power and choose to be ignorant by supporting and

enforcing this failed concept, there are many others who become victims everyday at the

hands of discrimination, the very problem that affirmative action is supposed to eliminate.

Affirmative action does not reward those who have the skills, the experience, or who have

worked their way up to a particular job. In actuality, affirmative action hurts everyone in

some form or another. First, it hurts those who possess the qualifications for a particular

job, yet are denied a job because of the rules of affirmative action. Second, it hurts females

who do not possess the same qualifications as males, yet are still given a job for the simple

reason that they are a minority. Affirmative action causes certain institutions to lower the

standards for a particular position, and has therefore committed a disservice towards

minorities by giving them a certain status without having to earn it. In essence, this is

called charity. Third, because affirmative actio

placement in an institution. Unfortunately, our own leaders, who make the laws and in

who are less qualified. The idea of affirmative action was to stop the deliberate

Donald M. Stewart, president of the college board, recently wrote a memo to

the job. I also believe if an institution requires female representation to better serve the

attention. That attention however, should not be the taking of jobs from one race and

the government. Is this not discrimination? According to the dictionary's definition of

the SAT because of the recommendation from the Latino Eligibility Task Force, which has

position, it hurts everyone who relies on certain institutions to provide excellent service or

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