Is Affirmative Action Reverse Discrimination

Is Affirmative Action Reverse Discrimination? From the Content of Our Character: A new Vision of Race in America, author Shelby Steele briefly tells her point of view on this subject. Affirmative action is a “preferential treatment” used to balance or “proportionate racial representations” in the society today. The price of preference is the illusion that will be created. One of the evidences she presented was her watching an illusion at work in a mother of …

…remedy also apply to the minorities? It was my qualifications that university took consideration in when they offered me admission. However, if racial discrimination is not the issue (and which it should not be) I do believe in Clarence Page’s statement that those applicants who show potential should have a chance in school, work, etc… but using affirmative action to present chances is not the remedy. Those who show potential, will have a chance.