<p>According to the 2010 census on people who are 18 or younger in poverty ([National</a> Poverty Center | University of Michigan](<a href=“http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/]National”>» Poverty Facts)), blacks and whites are virtually equal in number while there are a thousand more Hispanics under poverty. Percentage-wise, almost 40% of blacks are poor. If we went by a socioeconomic system for affirmative action, there would not be a great change in who is admitted. Additionally, it’ll be more fair, seeing as there still is almost 14% of Asians who too are also living under poverty. It would be totally unjust to deny an underprivileged Asian and admit a rich black student, wouldn’t it?</p>
<p>Stereotype-breaking? Don’t go there. Affirmative action is notorious for mismatching, which happens when students are placed into schools that are too difficult for him or her. Without affirmative action, a student will be accepted into a university that fits their academic ability. Top schools, however, frequently use affirmative action to create a diverse campus. An incapable student accepted into a difficult school by means of affirmative action may not be able to maintain a decent G.P.A. and may ultimately drop out. According to the LA Times ([Does</a> affirmative action hurt minorities? - latimes.com](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/la-oe-sander26sep26,0,6466017.story]Does”>http://www.latimes.com/news/la-oe-sander26sep26,0,6466017.story)) “research shows that 50% of black law students end up in the bottom 10th of their class, and that they are more than twice as likely to drop out as white students. Only one in three black students who start law school graduate and pass the bar on their first attempt; most never become lawyers.” A 2004 study by University of California, Los Angeles’s Richard H. Sander, titled “A Systemic Analysis of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools,” echoes these negatives, reporting that there are 7.9% fewer black attorneys than there would have been if there was no affirmative action, and that mismatching makes blacks more likely to drop out of law school and fail exams. Affirmative action is ultimately hurting these minority students, placing them in schools they cannot keep up with. That ends up instilling doubt and lowering the values of minorities. In his book, Dinesh D’Souza addresses this perception pretty nicely:
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With blacks… there remains a widespread suspicion that they might be intellectually inferior. Far from dispelling this suspicion, affirmative action strengthens it. Affirmative action conveys the message that “this group is incapable of making it on its own merits.” Such preferences devalue black achievement, and they intensify doubts about black capacity… Racial preferences are a distraction… They create the illusion that blacks are performing poorly due to racism. By rigging the race in favor of blacks, affirmative action policies prevent African Americans, and society I general, from doing the hard and necessary work of building African American cultural skills so that blacks can compete effectively with whites and other groups. (D’Souza 98)
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Affirmative action creates the impression that minorities earn degrees with the help of affirmative action, that they may not be capable of gaining it without aid. The view that their race rather than their merit earned them their degrees diminishes the value that society places on them.</p>
<p>I didn’t want my post to be so long, but if you think affirmative action BREAKS stereotypes… Well, I had to address that. Do you know who affirmative action ultimately benefits anyway? White women. In the end, it doesn’t even help the URMs like it should. If you don’t believe me, search it up.</p>