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The Pros And Cons Of Affirmative Action

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Would you want to be paid back for the things that have happened in your family for generations? Affirmative Action is a policy that favors a disadvantaged person or group. A form of affirmative action would be giving a person of color the education they deserve , like getting into the colleges they qualify for. Affirmative action hinders equality by causing suffering and dropouts of minorities.

Affirmative Action policies cause suffering or dropouts of certain people. In The Economist, it shows because of affirmative action people are dropping out of college. “Affirmative action reduces the number of blacks who qualify as lawyers by placing black students in law school for which they are ill-prepared, causing many to dropout.” (The Economist
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