Affirmative action: Racist by nature

The article discusses affirmative action and goes as far as calling it reverse-discrimination. There are so many things wrong with this article that I hard time believing someone through it was okay publish such a skewed opinion. To start, he mentions the reason for the affirmative action was in response to segregation and the “many wrong done to black” but had he understood the details of slavery and oppression he would come to realize that some of his assumptions are wrong-like assuming we are on the same playing field. Fact of the matter is racism still prevalent in today society demonstrated by the teen shooting in Florida so quoting Martin Luther King Jr. said to make his argument is inappropriate Also, McGravey talks about these injustices by mixing race and social class together.  He talks about the divide between whites and Asian American with African American and Hispanics and uses Affirmative action as a response to simply race but then goes further to talk about whites living in slums who don’t have the same advantages.

He does make some good points in that whites who are disadvantage should have a policy to help them but that’s a separate issue. Affirmative action doesn’t have to be all or nothing deal. We can still have affirmative action but also have another policy that looks out for the disadvantage in general.  The article is in support of Abigail in the Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas lawsuit. Abigail was denied acceptance at the University and her reasoning for the lawsuit was that it was because she was white and that other undeserving minorities took her place. The admission process takes in to account GPA and ethnicity but there are also other attributes that might separate one candidate from another like the required essay and extra activities so to assume it was solely based on race is crazy. Abigail decided to go after affirmative action but what about legacy admission??

In regards to African American children, there needs to be resources and programs so that we don’t rely on affirmative action but use it when there is injustice. Resource is the biggest thing that is hindering the Africa American community not ability as we saw from the SXSW video and Urban Prep and so there needs to be program supported by the state to make sure every student regardless of neighborhood gets the same education especially in Texas where TASK testing determines high school graduation.