Affirmative Action, go away! Options

[*Steven*]

Affirmative was created way back when to help blacks get back on their feet etc etc. Now it seems a lot of races use it as a crutch, assuming that because they're a minority that they'll get preferential treatment and that if they don't then it's racism. It was supposed to have just faded away as things became more and more equal, but lo and behold, it's still here.

Anyone think it should stay? What are your reasons?

[BOOGERSHAHA]

do you pay for your ancestors' sins? no.
should you benefit from what your ancestors suffered? no.

[HoodNigga]

do you pay for your ancestors' sins? no.
should you benefit from what your ancestors suffered? no.

LOL but black people weren't free just because slavery ended in the mid 1800s. All the way up to the 1960s blacks were treated unequally, which means those same people who were discriminated against are still living. If you put that together with all the other races that were discriminated against here in America, black people had it a lot worse.

As far as affirmative action, it just like anything else. It has its pros and cons. Like someone mentioned earlier its good based on the fact that people tend to use prejudice when it comes to hiring, on the other hand its still discrimination against someone else of another background.

And as far as the race and college acceptance thing. We never talk about UT's other acceptance policy now do we? Because everything is focused on race. What about the policy they have where if you finish in the top 10 of your class you're automatically accepted? Now lets say a person went to a far more magnet high school and finished with a 3.9 gpa and finished 12 in his class. But yet someone who went to just a regular school finished with a 3.7 gpa and graduated at number 6 in his class. The guy with the 3.7 gpa gets in. Is this fair?

Of course using race and policies like this is not fair, but I would hope that UT would try to accept more blacks, especially with them having tons of black athletes. What sense does it make to have a team filled with blacks, but no black students in the school except for the athletes?

If they get rid of the minority acceptance policy , then I would expect them to stop accepting minority athletes who don't meet the requirements as well. Do you think they would do that? No because they don't want their athletic program to look bad, because that brings in a lot of money.