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Affirmative action1
Title: Affirmative action1
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 655 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Affirmative action1
Former Senator Bob Dole once said of affirmative action, ”Our country is no longer the land of opportunity but a pie chart, where jobs and other benefits are often awarded not because of hard work or merit, but because of someone’s biology” (www.washingtonpost.com). Why should we oppress a new generation, and risk planting the seed of racism, to correct the mistakes of our forefathers? There are many problems with affirmative action: including effectiveness, being misconceptions of its original intentions, and being the …showed first 85 words of 655 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 655 total…original intention, and moral issues. In his “I Have a Dream Speech,” Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have a dream, that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” (www.smartlink.net). It is a shame to disappoint him.
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