Affermative Action

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groups (22). Therefore, Affirmative Action is legitimate because it does reduce discrimination in the work place and related areas such as University acceptance of college students. In the end, it should in no way be abolished. Scott2 However, Affirmative action is highly controversial. Right now Proposition 209, in California which bans all programs involving race and sex preferences run by the state, has passed but it will not be put into total action due to some questions of constitutionality (Ayres 34). The law will start slowly first, ending Affirmative Action in the schools of California, leading up to the abolishment of Affirmative Action all together. An argument was declared by Mark Rosenbaum of the Southern California Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, “ Proposition 209 should be declared unconstitutional because it singles out women and minorities and, at a time when discrimination still exists, sought to preclude them from attaining constitutionally ...

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of Scott3 Texas Law School was banned from using race at all in their admitting. Attorney General Dan Morales of Texas has understood the ruling as “banning Affirmative Action in admissions, scholarships and college recruiting programs.” This ruling is now being applied to almost all Texas colleges (Applebome a14). As Peter Applebome puts it “ Texas and California have become laboratories for a world without Affirmative Action” (a14). So far the results have proved the world desperately needs Affirmative Action. Statistically the abolishment of Affirmative Action on graduate schools this year in California show that the enrollment of blacks in a random law school declined from twenty last ...

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