Affirmative action in the collegiate admissions process is primarily based upon race. For example,

There have been two major solutions implemented in the process to eliminate the policy of affirmative actions in public universities in several cities across the nation. The first program guarantees automatic acceptance to the school if the applicant is anywhere within the top four to twenty percent, depending on the college, of students in their high school. In the Florida public university system, this plan has seen success under the watchful eye of Florida governor Jeb Bush. His Talented 20 program has produced results that show 556 more black students enrolled at the state's public universities in the fall of 2000 than the previous year, an increase of 11 percent and among Hispanic students, the difference was smaller-317 more students, an increase of nearly 8 percent for an overall eleven percent increase in freshmen minority enrollment.

Affirmative action occurs whenever an organization goes out of its way to make sure there is no discrimination against people of color, against white women, against people with disabilities, or against veterans. If it weren't for affirmative action, there would be a major lack of minority presence in different positions throughout the working industry. With cases, like Brown vs. Board of Education, Plessy vs. Ferguson, there would not be any footholds in modern society for minorities to advance and attain higher education. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 put the policy of prevention against minorities in the federal programs, public facilities, and the workplace. Affirmative action is geared towards making business, government, and higher education institutions resemble America; in that this land is very diverse and so must the various establishments within this country. Affirmative action is still necessary because schools with a high minority concentration are not given a proportionate amount of effective new educators(new teachers with the minimum education standards) as opposed to wealthier, and predominantly majority white schools, which receive highly educated professors. This factor, in accordance with past and present educational injustices, will keep the policy of affirmative action in existence as long as these types of injustices are performed against minorities.

I now believe in programs like the Talented 20 implemented in Florida and I am a proponent of class based affirmative action. They both seem to offer fair and equal chances for everyone to gain acceptance to a school and provide the least amount of discrimination. "The mandates of black power and white absolution out of which preferences were emerged were not wrong in themselves. What was wrong was that both races focused more on the goals of these mandates than on the means to the goals. Blacks can have no real power without taking responsibility for their own educational and economic development. Whites can have no racial innocence without earning it by eradicating discrimination and helping the disadvantaged to develop. Because we ignored the means, the goals have not been reached, and the work remains to be done."

When we look at society through the Lockean state of nature, we see that every works for what they make and keep what they earn. In particular, if we look back at slavery, we see these Lockean laws being violated. If a man's rights have been violated, then it is only right that the injustices performed against them b

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