Affirmative Action

Greensleeves1028
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:57:14 +0000

At some point, everyone is going to have to realize that: Life is unfair. People have challenges to overcome. It is incorrect to assume that race is the only challenge anyone ever faces. Gender is an issue, but kids get made fun of in elementary school for being short, skinny, or wearing glasses. And adults can be just as shallow.

We all had the opportunity to do stupid things that would lead drugs, jail, gangs, etc. It isn’t just minorities. Every race (and economic class) has single parent families, tragedies, emotional problems, abuse, etc. It isn’t just minorities. We all have to work at school to make good grades. It isn’t just minorities.

I believe in equality of opportunity. That is how America works. Instead of focusing on college admissions, we should focus on fixing the situations that necessitated AA: earlier education, social programs. In “The Outsiders” by S. E. Hinton (a VERY good book) there is a quote I really like “It’s bad all over.” Just b/c you are white and your parents make $300,000 a year does not mean that life is made for you. Problems hinder our ability to perform in every community.