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Affirmative Action or Reverse Discrimination?

Bob and Steve have both applied to University X for the spring 2002 semester. Both have Board scores that are 1400 and maintain a 3.8 G.P.A. Their extra curricular activities are impressive and both their college essays are outstanding. Bob has been rejected and Steve has been accepted. Bob is Caucasian and Steve is African American. They have just been exposed to affirmative action. Targeted especially towards minorities and women, affirmative action is an idea that advocates equal opportunity and was essentially designed to make up for acts of discrimination in the American history.
America, a country which stands by the phrase "with liberty and justice for all", seems to be the last place on earth that one would expect to see the implementation of such a policy. Initially, affirmative action was created to rectify past injustices done to certain groups of people. Instances where the groups were discriminated against before are......

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