Should+affirmative+action+be+modified+or+ended?

Before I get into anything I would like to say the exact definition. So affirmative action is an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women; //also// **:** a similar effort to promote the rights or progress of other disadvantaged persons. Now that we know the definition, in this article I was reading I saw where it said justifications for affirmative action, and at first response I thought how does one justify racism, then thinking again, to affirmative action itself I thought how does one legalize the ability to act on racism. That got me thinking should affirmative action be changed, or altogether stricken? I think that maybe it is okay if it is there if we just changed it, I also think that we shouldn't just lay down and let it happen either, America was made by questioning authority and having the drive to act on it too. That's why we in my opinion things need to be changed. Now back to what I was saying some justifications given for affirmative action were as follows: creation of diversity or proportional group representation, Social utility arguments (Does the government want us to fight?), preempting social unrest, nation building, Efficiency of socio-economic system, equality of opportunities or equality of results. Look at the Grutter v. Bollinger case. **CAN YOU SUMMARIZE IT BRIEFLY FOR YOUR AUDIENCE?** Was there equal opportunity… No. The school wanted diversity. They went against one of the so called "reasons" for affirmative action to go forward though one of the "reasons" now this seems contradictory. Something seems messed up in the system either at University of Michigan or within the confines of the laws of the United States of America, either one doesn't sound good. I think Michigan was wrong but affirmative action was also wrong. This just goes to show you that our schools priorities are falling. That schools are no longer competing for the highest grades but, for the most diversity. They **should** have had equal opportunity. The better person **should** win. This didn't work because of the imaginary race card. We all agree that slavery was wrong right? Then why is it that we still continue to make decisions based on race? This is just going against everything this law stands for. So maybe the law is wrong maybe the law no longer does the job. Maybe this law needs to be changed. I think that this law should be refined. I think that this law is wrong to say racism is okay. Racism is wrong we have agreed on this and yet we have laws that legalize it. We talked about the law back in the civil war times and how it was wrong, and we sit here allowing the same thing to happen. We are becoming hypocrites or we are becoming what we were before the civil war and either one isn't very good. Another thing, affirmative action was made for what purpose? I don't see where this became anything that anyone needed or used. Affirmative Action is a useless excuse to justify racism that is all it is. In my opinion the better thing to do would be to abolish it altogether, as it doesn't serve much of a purpose. All it does is justify racism and nothing else. The better person should always win whether or not they are black, white, Latino, or Asian. So affirmative action, if it were up to me, would be gone, nonexistent. They say some stereotypes may never be broken without affirmative action, and if they don't get broken then maybe they were true. I am not trying to put any race down but, if the stereotype can't be broken with perfect equality then it isn't just a stereotype. Martin Luther King once said "judge me not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character" and if stereotypes don't get broken then maybe they're just true. Even if they aren't it doesn't matter. We should strive to be the best not the most diverse that is what everyone wants and now "diversity" changes everything. This also sort of goes in with quantity over quality. We have a higher quantity of diversity in a sacrifice of quality. We look more at race than we do the work they're performing. That is not the way it is supposed to be. If we went like that for the rest of our lives where would we be. Sure we would be diverse, but we would start falling behind on things. If we don't try to be the best we never will. It is a matter of priorities and the vision you are trying to see, if you want colors you go diversity, if you want the best maybe it will be diverse maybe not. That is what equality is. Equality is judging everyone with the same standards and given the same opportunity. Affirmative Action is not equal, that is why it needs to be at least changed but, really just abolished. The next thing I would do is go into how race has evolved not just how it is. I would like to go into the change that has happened through the years in how affirmative action is dealt with. I would like to see how public racism has gone down and now it is subtle justified, legalized racism. How the people view the law and how people who are just everyday people view diversity is it important to be the most diverse or the best?
 * Where I plan To Go Next**

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