I wrote a paper on affirmative action, (Im against it). On my rough draft my teacher said that affirmative action was handicapping for a sport. So I addressed the issue in my final paper. At first, I thought he had one over me. Then I realized as a golfer, that handicapping is only useful for friendly games, where the outcome is for bragging rights. It is true that some people are truly lucky and/or truly gifted and they are set apart from some, even those who truly work hard. The problem lies in the fact that those who are good from working hard and those who are good from being lucky/gifted cannot be seperated without some type of discrimination. To deny people an opporunity based solely on their race while accepting someone else solely based on their race is what affirmative action wants to combat, yet it does exactly what it fights against. Also, I read in a book that some successful black men disliked affirmative action because they no longer recieved credit for their work. People assummed that they were their because of ther race and not their hard work. Affirmative action can make outcasts of those it is trying to help.
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