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Affirmative Action and racial profiling

Affirmative action means taking positive steps to boost the representation of women and minorities in areas of the work place and schools from which they have been excluded through histories process. Affirmative action is good at times but when it used to supposedly advance the goal of racial understanding and harmony in schools, it is wrong. Colleges as well as other schools are using racial preferences when they choose students. In doing so they go against the constitution in a numerous of ways. The question of affirmative action has also occurred in the lawsuit against the University of Michigan. Not only is it taking place in colleges but also with children in the Chicago Public Schools selective enrollment high school programs. Affirmative action is an immense opportunity to give minorities a chance at education but when it is used in impractical ways it becomes unreasonable.
The Constitution guarantees equality for everyone despite your ethnic background or gender. Affirmative ...

Posted by: Quentina Green

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