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America and Affirmative Action



Affirmative action has been the subject of increasing debate and tension in

American society. However, the debate over affirmative action has become ensnared in

rhetoric that pits equality of opportunity against the equality of results. The debate has

been more emotional than intellectual, and has generated more tension than shed light on

the issue. Participants in the debate have over examined the ethical and moral issues that

affirmative action raises while forgetting to scrutinize the system that has created the

need for them. Too often, affirmative action is looked upon as the panacea for a nation

once ill with, but now cured of, the virulent disease of racial discrimination. Affirmative

action is, and should be seen as, a temporary, partial, and perhaps even flawed remedy

for past and continuing discrimination against historically marginalized and

disenfranchised groups in American society. Working as it should, it affords groups......

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