Has Affirmative Action Outlived its Usefulness?

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This paper examines the debate over affirmative action. It ultimately argues that there is a need for affirmative action, and the policy is the only just way of creating a more diversified and equal community.

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"The debate over affirmative action has been polarized into two camps: either that it is still necessary in order to right the wrongdoings of the past, or that the act itself is unconstitutional. In Finterbusch's Taking Sides, he presents two sides to the issue, but first reminds the reader that "the unemployment rate for blacks today is much higher than that of whites," and that "disproportionately higher numbers of blacks experience poverty, brutality, broken homes, physical and mental illness, and early deaths, while disproportionately lower numbers of them reach positions of affluence and prestige" (165). In making this point, Finterbusch shows the reader that he or she must identify that there is a problem of social inequity afflicting black Americans, and the issue is over whether affirmative action is a just way to remedy this problem."

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