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Anti-Affirmative Action


"That student was accepted because of affirmative action policies."
With my first intake of the phrase, I realized that the student, whom I
knew and worked with so many times, the one with such a lack of
motivational ability, confidence, and ideas, was now occupying my chances
towards a preferred school. "Affirmative action", I soon found out, was
used by President John F. Kennedy over 30 years ago to imply equality and
equal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin.
As a policy setting out to resolve the problems of discrimination,
Affirmative Action is simply nothing more than a quota of reverse
discrimination.
Affirmative Action emphasizes prospective ...

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best pick from a limited
group." Another article I found, "Affirmative action: A Counter-
Productive Policy" by Ernest Pasour also on the W.W.W., is one example
which reveals that Duke, a very famous and prestigious university, adopted
a resolution requiring each of it's department to hire at least one new
African-American for a faculty position the 1993 date. More proofs of
Affirmative Action in action is the admission practices at the University
of California Berkeley. In the same article by Pasour, it states that
while whites or Asian-Americans need at least a 3.7 grade point average
through high school to be in consideration for admission in Berkeley, most
minorities with much lower standards are automatically admitted. All the
preferential treatment may provide a basis for employers, employees, as
well as real applicable students to fight for an end to Affirmative Action.

The development of more racial tensions are yet another part of the
Affirmative Action policy. ...

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Added: 5/23/2004 10:42:39 AM
Category: Social Issues
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