“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King spoke these words in 1963, and they still resonate today. Affirmative action programs were established to create this very type of equality, but have they brought us closer to Dr. King’s dream or hindered it?
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Affirmative Action is a Critical Tool
A critical tool, like a hammer when fixing a car.
So, you say that affirmative action is a "critical tool". That "it added depth and understanding to the education of all students, that it creates critical opportunities for students of color who have been denied equal preparation by inferior segregated schools". Are you still claiming that schools are segregated? That Whites are given more than Blacks? Where are these segregated schools, I can never seem to find them.
Oh well, I am happy to see that collages and universities are considering my overall well being by hoping to submerge me in "depth" and "understanding of education". I was unaware that all it took was an African American, an Asian American, a Hispanic, or Native American to bring this about (and here I thought that it actually took a mind, somebody who truly gained their value and worth). That must be it. Why would a collage do use affirmative action if not for this? Grants? Funding? Donations? No, heavens no.
Tell me, do you believe that a government official (we'll say the President) should make the same as a custodian? Clearly one has done MUCH MORE work than that of the other, has strived and toiled to achive what they currently have. Should the rewards (payment) be the same? What is it that you believe in?
- ckidwell7098
March 9, 2009 4:23PM
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