Albeit affirmative action does give people of African American and Hispanic descent an advantage as well as an opportunity to achieve in life, it is time that society officially ends it and focus more on socioeconomic status along with intelligence. I remember having a conversation at my Prep 9 program in which we discussed macro-aggressions (overt aggressions used to purposely insult a certain race) and one, that was supposedly not true, was that African Americans/Hispanics are at an advantage and solely are admitted into boarding schools to make them diverse. Prep, like other academic programs (TEAK, Oliver Scholars, etc.) only admit minorities into their programs in order to create leaders of the races. They do indeed have a positive outcome for their students which we should all be fortunate about because it is not easy to accomplish. In addition, I, along with others, would …show more content…
However, you really wonder that if there was no affirmative action, would the goal of minorities having an equal opportunity be achieved and is this just a game of race? It sure does seem like so.
One reason to ban affirmative action is because it truly favors one race over the other. As stated in “Affirmative Action: Overview”, it argues that those who oppose this action believe that it “causes a form of reverse discrimination by [preferring] one group over another, based on racial preference rather than academic achievement”, which serves unconstitutional in a way by providing advantages to the minority and defeats the purpose of what America established in the past to make everyone equal. Likewise, the article “Poverty Preference Admissions: The New Affirmative Action?” illustrates, through a graph, that “The income gap is twice as large as the race gap, and growing”,