The Need For Affirmative Action

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white privilege than establishing equality of opportunity for all.
Just looking at the history of this country should provide a serious
critique to the idea of a level playing field. Since the birth of this
nation, Blacks have been an enslaved, oppressed, and exploited people.
Until 1954, when the Supreme Court handed down Brown v. Board, Blacks were
legally pushed to the margin of society where many were left to dwell in
poverty and powerlessness. The Brown decision removed the legal impediments
that had so long kept Blacks deprived of the educational necessities. It
merely allowed Blacks to enter the arena of competition. Without the
deconstruction of white power and privilege how can we legitimately claim
that the playing field is level?
In fact not using affirmative action will only accomplish the
continued exclusion of Black Americans from participation within American
society and thus further ingrain stereotypes Another reason that
affirmative action ...

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