Affirmative Action Argumentative Essay

Affirmative action is the policy in which schools give priority to students who tend to suffer from discrimination. The policy was intended to give minorities equal rights in the admission process, however nowadays, it gives an unfair preference to one group of students, as opposed to being equal. This leads into the discussion of racial discrimination. Opponents of the law say that affirmative action gives minorities an unfair advantage over non-minorities. On the other side, proponents of the law say affirmative action is the way to reverse the negative effects caused by years of racism and discrimination before 1961. I believe that affirmative action is a good sentiment to the minority community, however, I think it’s the incorrect approach to fix the problem. You can’t solve the problem of discrimination by creating more discrimination.
On March 6th, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order into law
Affirmative action was originally created to ensure equal opportunity for all, yet now it divides people based on their race. These divides can be easily seen in color based scholarships that largely favor blacks or other minorities, yet leave out individuals of majority groups. By creating exclusive scholarships only for blacks, white students are being discriminated against. It is a double standard, if someone were to found a ‘white only’ scholarship, it would likely be considered to be racist. Affirmative action is clearly favoring minority groups, and giving them an undeserved advantage. An example of this discrimination is clear, a statistic from the New York Times shows that after affirmative action was banned in California, the number of Hispanics and blacks accepted at UC Berkeley, and UC LA dropped sharply. Every time a college bases its decision on who to accept based on race or color, the racial tensions between minorities and majorities will rise in American