Affirmative Action

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affirmative action, they must employ someone who
is underrepresented. This type of situation happens often. It is not the
qualifications, but the color of the skin that employers look for today.
Affirmative action is a step backwards. We are back to color and race
differences. We are all Americans and should be treated as so, not what
ethnicity we are. Affirmative action should be abolished solely because we do
not want to make the same mistake our society made in the past --- discriminate
according to color. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Many people say that we should keep affirmative action to render
fairness to the minorities because of the wrongs that was once put on to them.
This simply does not make sense. To compensate someone, a person must have gone
through an experience. People today did not go through such discrimination, as
their past ancestors. How can we punish someone for what they had no control?
Our white society today did not commit the wrongs that ...

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