The Effects Of Race Based Affirmative Action

The Effects Of Race Based Affirmative Action

The Effects of Race Based Affirmative Action
To believe in true human equality means to truly treat whites and blacks as equals, and if we don’t do just that, we are only continuing the cycle of racism and accomplishing exactly the opposite of what affirmative action claims to achieve. The way to achieve a color blind society is to actually be a color blind society (Bennett 187). Affirmative action, by definition, means allowing certain racial groups preference over others, especially when college admission   or employment is concerned in an attempt to reparate racism and slavery. To treat minorities differently and separate to make up for them having been treated differently and separate throughout history does not make sense. Affirmative action is unconstitutional and an ineffective way to reparate slavery and combat racism. It only perpetuates the problem, and has other ill effects as well.
The majority of blacks agree that affirmative action is wrong and refuse to accept affirmative action based aide (Simon 18). According to a poll conducted by William Bennett, only four percent of blacks view affirmative action as a positive thing
(Bennett 188).If the people it is intended to help don’t want or like the policy of affirmative action, there is no reason for it to exist. It perpetuates racism in that it divides people into groups based on the color of their skin. There are more effective ways to reparate the damage caused by racism and slavery. Affirmative action even undermines the Constitution, which is the very core of the American belief system and law. In the Fourteenth Amendment, it states that every human, regardless of race, should be treated
(Niman 2)
equally and that every man and woman should have equal rights and privileges. Affirmative action, by sheer definition, totally violates this amendment (Bennett 187). When Congress tries to pass affirmative action off as a constitutional practice, it is difficult to say the least. Very little...