It provides us with the notion that everyone is equal, despite skin color. As it very well reads, ALL men are created equal, with that being said, why is one group given preferential treatment over another, and how is this system allowed? The answer is simple: Affirmative action isn't fair for all of America. For many decades now, our government has been treating people differently based on their skin color, causing no one to be or feel equal towards one another. In fact, as we are experiencing today, the government also created discriminating policies in the past, including Jim Crow laws and slavery. Both which violated the statement of "all men are created equal" and are "Endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." Racial preferences put in place to provide better opportunities and positions for those who previously suffered, are in fact against our American principles (Canady.) It would be ignorant to say that minorities didn't suffer, however, by giving them easier access to jobs and education, we are in fact limiting the non-minorities and ultimately causing more discrimination, just by a different race this time. In fact, Schuck said, "Preferences can only commit new wrongs because the cost-bearers are innocent" (23.) Minorities are gaining from affirmative action by getting first pick at jobs and school, while non-minorities have to wait in line behind them, despite the fact that non-minorities did nothing to be picked last. Once again, proving that affirmative action is not treating all of America equally even though the constitution blatantly says we should. .
Instead of employing desegregation and causing less tension among different races, affirmative action is seen as doing the opposite, causing stigmatization of blacks. Many people see affirmative action as giving preferential treatment to those who aren't qualified, therefore causing all races to see this policy as the reason for a minority's success, and a non minority's failure.