Why Affirmative Action Is Unfair

While Affirmative Action was developed with good intentions, this program further divides different races. Having a government program designed to elevate minorities when it comes to school and job admissions, even when they have lower credentials, is totally unacceptable. Affirmative Action is causing the citizens of the United States to believe that “separate but equal”, the ideology that the United States can divide races, as long as they are “fair”, is acceptable. This racist and unfair judgement against Asians and Caucasians is becoming an everyday occurrence in the twenty-first century. A recent survey of African American students at colleges in North Carolina, concluded that “a majority of students interviewed felt that they were treated like affirmative action cases even if they were not”(Ernest Pasour). …show more content…
Not that they were accepted on their own. Further, “the average SAT disparity between Stanford's African-American and white admittees reached 171 points in 1992”(David Sacks). Minorities are not only being given preference in a tight judgement; a difference of 171 SAT points could make an African-American student be admitted to a much higher university than if he or she was Caucasian or Asian. The Affirmative Action is an unfair government program developed to combat racism, developing more racism will not elevate the minority, because fighting racism with racism will only end in