Affirmative action in education also reaches out to disabled students,.
women, minorities, economically disadvantaged students, veterans, etc. It.
helps them in many ways like: " early outreach programs, recruitment and.
retention programs, efforts in admissions to diversify the student.
population, and specific financial aid opportunities."(Edwards, 213).
So as you can see, Affirmative action was proposed and accepted for.
a great many reasons that constantly create controversy. Not only.
minorities have supported affirmative action. Most people would imagine.
all minorities love affirmative action and strongly voted for it and.
that's why it passed. That's part of the reason, but we must not forget.
two major supporters of Affirmative action. One of these supporters is an.
unsuspected group of men; namely, the Angry White Guys for Affirmative.
Action. Yes, a group of white men! These men are angry because they feel.
that being a white man gives them more privileges than are fair. Paul.
Rockwell, the president of Angry White Guys for Affirmative Action says:.
We hear a lot about angry white males' today. Well, we too are.
angry white males. But contrary to the caricature, we support affirmative.
action. As white men whose own families got free medical care, or.
unquestioned access to higher education through the GI Bill, who shared in.
the social uplift of the New Deal, we support affirmative action for those.
who are still left out. And we are not tear-jerk liberals, or millionaires.
who can afford to appear magnanimous. It is out of our own self-interest,.
as direct beneficiaries of social engineering, that we support programs of.
inclusion.
Ryan Mendoza from the Yale Daily News applauds the Angry White Guys.
because he says, "Although Affirmative Action treats innocent white males.
unequally, it does not deprive them of any genuine equal opportunity rights.
Affirmative Action only eliminates undeserved increases in their prospects.