The dissection and analysis of the affects of a history of discrimination on modern society is certainly not new, yet still controversial, arguable, and often persuasive. In fact, in the written work, "Race Matters," it is that very dissection that the author has decided to use in order to argue his views; however put less scientifically and based much more subjectively. "Race Matters," written by Cornel West, is a highly opinionated accounting of the author's view of the place and condition of present-day African Americans and the correlation of those conditions with their history of discrimination. Within his work, West credits today's democracy with the downfall of minority economic and social problems. He attempts to create thoughts in one's mind that the main problem in today's society is the "color line." The document includes thought-provoking tactics in-order to gain persuaded mindsets of Black society. He analyzes the legacy of white-supremacy, the evolution of class divisions, violence among the races, and breakthroughs in discrimination; many times using nothing more than his own opinions of history and undocumented statistics. .
In America today, it is commonly understood that there is a great multitude of prejudices. Whites still prejudice against minorities. Some minorities now prejudice against Whites. Tall people prejudice against those who are short, thin against those who are fat, gender prejudices, and the list continues. Taking this into consideration, you could rationalize that the main problem of today's society is not "mostly" any one prejudice, but that based on who you are, "what" you are, and where you come from, you could logically see the prejudice you've been most exposed to as the biggest and most problematic. With that in mind, let it be known the author of "Race Matters," Cornel West, a black man, was born in 1953, in the South, during the height of the black civil rights movement.
The steps taken by the Affirmative Action plan aimed to eliminate previous prejudicial selections, as well as to serve as a sort of recompense for previous mistreatments. ... The obvious contradiction here is that Clarence Thomas benefited immensely from the kind of Affirmative Action programs he later sought to exterminate. ...