Discrimination can be said as being specific
actions or policies directed against the welfare of
minority groups. Eliminating discrimination,
especially those discriminated by race, requires a
great deal of time and effort from both the law and
society. Some programs have been created to level
off race disparity. Affirmative action programs are
one of these such techniques. Through affirmative
action, the law and society try to decrease
disparity by assigning certain advantages to groups
that have been subject to discriminatory actions.
Its main goal is to bring the disadvantaged groups
to the same level as those groups that were not
exposed to unfair treatment. In the following, I
will provide my reaction to arguments concerning
affirmative action policies.
One such incidence of racial discrimination
came from a white female Michigan resident who was
denied entry to Michigan's Law School based upon
her race. She then filed suit claiming that the Law
school uses race as a "predominant" factor, giving
applicants who belong to certain minority groups a
"significantly greater chance of admission than
students with similar credentials from disfavored
racial groups." The District Court concluded that
the law school's use of race as a factor for
admissions was unlawful. I feel that race should be
used as a factor for admissions in certain
circumstances. These certain circumstances would
include a favorable admissions policy towards
minority groups. I feel that minority groups should
be equally represented in any institution. However,
by following this affirmative action policy which
gives an advantage to certain minority groups, at
the same time you are discriminating against the
majority group, which then becomes the
disadvantaged group. There is no real way to solve
this problem. On one side, if you exclude race from
admissions, then the possibility of having a
minority group underrepresented is...