The Battle Over Affirmitive Action in the College World

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For many the subject of affirmative action is worth protesting over, however, there are a few who would love to see the existence of affirmitive action abolished. Affirmative action has always been a long debated topic with two different communites arguing very different view points. Although affirmitive action can cause friction among many different opionated people, on the other hand, the results of the practice has ensured the college educations for many of minorities in America. Should this practice be allowed during the college admissions process is the question that remains to be debated. The right to attend college is considered to be a privilege for students who are able to enroll within a university of their choice. Those who oppose affirmitive action argue a student's own personal qualifications should be the only determining factor taken into consideration when applying for college. Unfortunately, for some people the financial burden of college prevents them from attending, making the agruement for affirmative action more evident. With evidence supporting both sides of the debate the topic has caused people of all races to voice their own opinions on the subject.
Both sides provide valuable evidence in support of their stance and examples of the harm and or good it presents. The side in favor of affirmitive action feel that without the pracetice of affirmitive action college enrollment for minority Americans would suffer a great decline. They argue that ceasing affirmitive action will only cause more uneducated people to abide within society along side those with higher educations. Which in return can become a threat when a person does not feel adequately compatible to their fellow American. The African-American commun...

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...ucation other than high school. To keep it in place would violate the civil rights of student's who feel it's discriminatory and unethical. Overall, no matter what community you side with we all must find a way to educate ourselves.

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