Pros And Cons Of Affirmative Action

Introduction
I. As once stated by John Kasich, “Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.”
II. My partner and I stand against the resolution which states: “Resolved: Affirmative action to promote equal opportunity in the United States is justified.”
III. We will show you that Affirmative action to promote opportunity in the United States is justified because Affirmative Action Doesn’t Work, Affirmative Action Stigmatizes Beneficiaries, Affirmative Action is not needed.
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I. Affirmative Action Doesn’t Work A. Affirmative action creates issues in college. Sander, Richard H. "Affirmative Action Hurts Those It's Supposed to Help." Triblivenews.com.
Over the last few years, however, a new and potentially even more damaging line of inquiry has emerged -- the idea that racial preferences may materially harm the very people they intended to benefit… My research over the last two years, using recent data that track more than 30,000 law students and lawyers, has documented even more serious and pervasive mismatch effects in legal education. Elite law schools offer very substantial racial preferences for blacks, Hispanics and American Indians in order to create student bodies that are as racially diverse as their applicant pools. Because these elite schools admit the black students that second-tier law schools would normally admit, second-tier schools, to keep up their minority numbers, also offer big racial preferences. The result is a cascade effect down the law school hierarchy, leaving 80 percent to 90 percent of black students at significantly more selective schools than they would get into strictly on their academic
The researchers also presented another detriment of the controversial policy: “that affirmative action exacerbates the psychological burdens that minority students must carry on