Reasons Why Affirmative Action Is Wrong

Long past are the days when people could be denied employment, service or education just for being a minority. Nowadays, the college acceptance of many majority (white) individuals is at risk because they aren’t minorities, due to a group of policies known as “affirmative action”(United). These practices are implemented by colleges, mostly during the acceptance process of student applications, so as to increase the percentage of minorities in the student body. People often incorrectly label this as “reverse racism,” when in reality, it’s just racism.
An online dictionary defines racism as both “(1)The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others,” and “(2)Discrimination
One of the reasons it goes largely ignored is that the justifications for it are so pleasant sounding. Affirmative action is a form of racial discrimination that goes unnoticed by the majority of the population, and when one follows the reasons for implementing affirmative action to their core, they will find not a heart, but a tumor called racism. They will find that in fact, perhaps unbeknownst to those who argue for this practice, this method of “avoiding racism” (often promoted as “promoting diversity”) implies racist beliefs
In other words, giving an extra opportunity to minorities is a way of “paying it back” for the decades of abuse and discrimination that came before the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement. The flaw in the reasoning behind this solution is that it groups people who were involved in the situation with those who weren’t, just because of their race, rather than treating them as individuals. From the viewpoint of this solution, white people used to treat minorities horribly, so they should make up for it by giving them special treatment. Except the situation doesn’t only concern “white people” and “minorities.” Individuals, who were black, were enslaved and discriminated against by individuals, who were white. All that is true. However, none of those individuals are college students today. Most of the victims of serious racism, oppression and American slavery died long ago. The bottom line is this: redress cannot made for injustices against minorities in the past by compensating minorities today, because they are different people. To think that this is an appropriate way to make remittance is the very definition of racist. Those individuals are more than just their race. Furthermore, to think that whites today have the responsibility to make remittance for those injustices is equally racist because they are not the ones