Affirmative Action Today - Essay

Affirmative Action Today Recently there have been many issues regarding affirmative action and many politicians have been asking themselves, what is the place of affirmative in twenty-first century America? To obtain my own answer to this question a read two articles. One from the Guardian called “Rethinking affirmative action” written by Nicolaus Mills and another from the New York Times title “The Affirmative Action War Goes On”. In “Rethinking affirmative action”, Nicolaus Mills claims that affirmative action is putting low-income families at a disadvantage and not helping the families it was meant to help. He proposes that an alternative should be place that would aid the students who really need assistance. In the article from New York Times, “The Affirmative Action War Goes On”, the author states that affirmative action has cause many problems, many of which have ended up in the supreme court. He says that some of the justices are against affirmative action yet they support the use of race in certain solutions. Both of these articles claim that that the current form of affirmative action is not in any way perfect. However, while “Rethinking affirmative action” proposes an alternative not based on race that would help those who are really at a disadvantage, “The Affirmative Action War Goes On” declares that affirmative action should still be a factor in admissions to schools and universities because it helps education facilities have a diverse student body which in turn contributes to the education in this country. Both of these articles made me rethink about the advantages of affirmative action and made me consider that maybe a different form of affirmative action could be of a greater use to students and their families today. Both articles state that affirmative action not the best solution, but they contradict each other on whether an alternative solution should be considered or should affirmative action stay as it is as a temporary solution. In “The