Statistics from the University of California Berkeley show that black dropout rates are more than 50% higher than whites or Asians dropout rates. (www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/badgerlink/). Are we trying to encourage failure by placing many unqualified students where they cannot possibly succeed? The brilliant idea of affirmative action took place by giving minoriti

Affirmative action is nothing but reverse racism, and people are taught at a very young age that racism of any kind is wrong. There are many problems with affirmative action, such as: ineffectiveness, misconceptions about its original intention, and moral issues. In his "I Have a Dream Speech," Martin Luther King Jr. said, "I have a dream, that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" (www.smartlink.net). It is a shame to disappoint him.

The third and most important problem is the morality of affirmative action. Giving a job or other benefits based on someone's ethnicity is not only unethical but racist. Imagine this, you are a black man fresh out of college, going for an interview for your dream job. You do not get the job. When ask your interviewer why you didn't get the job he tells you th

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