Despite over fifty years of laws and legislation to combat racial discrimination, the majority of Americans still feel that race-based issues persist based on several modern polls. With affirmative action, this is a significant controversy in college admissions and employment processes. Because education and work contribute to people's livelihoods, affirmative action impacts many individuals differently in the United States. Affirmative action, however, is harmful to society overall because it acts as a catalyst for conjuring racial problems while deterring from a system which fosters skill and potential.
Affirmative action, in reality, intensifies the racial prejudice in America through reverse discrimination.(anecdote) When I was young, I remember watching that one television show where one of the episodes predicted, laughed, and mocked about acceptance biases towards Hispanic and African Americans, while being against White and Asian Americans in job applications for an unknown corporation as if it was a humorous circus performance (simile). Instead of giggling about it, I swallowed this seriously as in which the employers
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His article suggests that affirmative action “[violates]the 1964 Civil Rights Act” and uses race as a means to justify acceptances. He even mentions that it was supposed to encourage “diversity”. That in reality damages society and many who support this “lie systematically about what they are doing.” He is correct about the fact that there is harm in preconceiving others and assuming they are all the same. In turn, this creates stereotypes which like a chain reactions translates into using race as a means to classify people. In the end, these examples illustrate that Affirmative actions increase problems dealing with race in the long run instead of accomplishing the original intent of leveling a fair playing