Affirmative Action is not about diversity. It is not about making campus "balanced." Before you argue that we need diversity you have understand what Affirmative Action is really about.

Affirmative Action was made to help the disadvantaged. It was made to level the playing field. 150 years after Emancipation Proclamation, and 470 years after witch trials, and decades after "operation wet-back," bigots have found new and more innovated ways to hurt minorities. Whether it be redlining to prevent integration or channeling minority student into remedial classes, many policies have damage the poor and non-whites.

They argue that minorities are unqualified because of low SAT scores. They say that high drop out rates illustrate low work ethic. The fact that is easier to blame minorities for their problems makes these stereotypes easier to accept.

The race problem in America is probably not your fault. Most have probably not been activate in the obsessive system. But what many people are guilty of is lack of action. Between the real estate "reformation" of New Orleans, to the genocide in Darfur, most people do not care.

Many people will try to appear as if they are not racist, by arguing that colorblind is the way to go. This is why Affirmative action must go.

But saying that Affirmative Action must go is saying that the problem has been fixed. When faced with the statistics about difference concerning income, health care, and political presence, you can either believe that minorities are just that unqualified, or that the system is corrupt. Either way racism still exists today.

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