Affirmative action in college admissions should be outlawed because it is an unjust process which ends up promoting further discrimination, and it does not make up for America's past injustices toward minorities. ... In the same court case, it was stated by Michigan Law School's expert that "in 2000, 35 percent of underrepresented minority applicants were admitted. ... If affirmative action is considered constitutional under strict scrutiny, these statistics should not exist in a law-abiding university. ... "Undoubtedly[,] there are other ways to better the education of law students ...

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At UC Berkeley, African Americans made up 6.3% of freshmen in 1995 and 3.4% last fall. " This drop in enrollment of African Americans at California state colleges may be due in part to Proposition 209, passed as a law in 1996, which eliminates affirmative action measures in California in both the workplace and college. ... And gaining entry to America's elite universities is difficult; the perception, right or wrong, that race can in some circumstances trump merit strikes many as unjust, not least because universities play a large role in social mobility. " The main problem with affi...

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In response to the victory of the North, the United States added to the Constitution the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection of rights of all individuals under the law. ... Thus, affirmative action appears to provide an unjust payment to those minorities who have suffered discrimination in the past in terms of acceptance to colleges and jobs on account of race, obviously challenging the original purpose of affirmative action. ... It puts us all on the same footing, and it implies the necessity of colorblind la...

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In response to the victory of the North, the United States added to the Constitution the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees equal protection of rights of all individuals under the law. ... Thus, affirmative action appears to provide an unjust payment to those minorities who have suffered discrimination in the past in terms of acceptance to colleges and jobs on account of race, obviously challenging the original purpose of affirmative action. ... It puts us all on the same footing, and it implies the necessity of colorblind la...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a major step in reducing de jure or law based discrimination but was unable to cease deep seeded de facto or actual discrimination in American society. ... Programs that force employers to fire valuable employees or create new positions just for minority groups are not just bad for business, they are just as unjust as the discrimination that created this situation in the first place. ... This law was the first of its kind, but more than twenty states are currently working on similar measures. ... When the constitutionality of Proposition 209 was challenged to t...

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a major step in reducing de jure or law based discrimination but was unable to cease deep seeded de facto or actual discrimination in American society. ... Programs that force employers to fire valuable employees or create new positions just for minority groups are not just bad for business, they are just as unjust as the discrimination that created this situation in the first place. ... This law was the first of its kind, but more than twenty states are currently working on similar measures. ... When the constitutionality of Proposition 209 was challenged to t...

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The well renowned professor of law at Yale, Peter Schuck described affirmative action as "A program in which people who control access to important social resources offer preferential access to those resources for particular groups that they think need special treatment" (Schuck 5.) ... In fact, as we are experiencing today, the government also created discriminating policies in the past, including Jim Crow laws and slavery. ... For a company to be able to only hire from a certain skin color is unjust. ...

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In a time when it is en vogue to push the issue of cultural diversity, many people feel that they are unjustly being excluded because they are not a racial minority. ... In his Supreme Court opinion criticizing Affirmative Action, Thomas stated that he could find no moral difference between "laws designed to subjugate a race" and laws that benefit a race "in order to foster some current notion of equality." ...

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Eventually, these laws expanded to incorporate women and other ethnic minorities including American Indians and Hispanics. Laws have also broadened affirmative action to public universities as well as businesses. ... This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. ... Two other prominent states have or are considering laws affecting admissions in universities. After a Federal appeals court threw out the University of Texas' admission system favoring minorities in 1996, Texas passed a state law guaranteeing the top 10 percent of graduates from every Texas high school a spot at any publi...

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