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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 year to one this fall while the number of Hispanic students dropped to eighteen from twenty-eight. Some might believe that this could be just a random occurrence, but the same results showed in the University of Texas Law School s enrollment, three blacks this fall to last years fifty-nine (Applebome a14). Thus, bans on Affirmative Action are having negative effects on enrollment for blacks and other minorities in Texas and California s prominent universities. Therefore, proving that without Affirmative Action, any minority will not have a fair chance in today s society. Professor Lino Graglia, a critic of Affirmative Action points out The whole reason you have racial preferences is that the racially preferred do not meet the standards applied to others, if you require that they meet the standards, then they don t get in. This might be true in some maybe all cases, but in this very true rebuttal to Graglia s statement Rodney Ellis, Texas state senator, graduate of the University Law School in 1976 says I clearly got in through an Affirmative Action program, and I don t apologize for it… I m proud of it. It got me in, but it didn t get me out, didn t take the bar exam for me, didn t pass the two hundred and eighty five or so pieces of legislation I ve authored. (Applebome a14). Rodney Ellis is a perfect example of Affirmative Action, a minority getting the chance to prove himself. Affirmative Action did not get him where he is today, it just simply got his foot in the door. Affirmative Action gave Ellis a chance he would not have gotten if Affirmative Action did not exist. Although sad, but true we do not live in a perfect, color-blind country. President Clinton says It is simply wrong to play politics with the issue of Affirmative Action and divide our country at a time when, if we really want to change things, we have to be united. (Benac). In the same article President Clinton recalls his southern upbringing in the segregated south and states I have had experience with Affirmative Action, nearly twenty years of it now, and I know it works. In conclusion, Affirmative Action, just as it started, is trying to create unity within the real world, which is not perfect and very racist. So why are we still asking the question of why we are using Affirmative Action? Proven that it abolishing Affirmative Action would be a negative effect to the work place and in higher education, why should we go back to the days of segregation, why not move forward still some until we can create unity; President Lyndon B. Johnson put it best at Howard University s commencement ceremony in 1965: We seek not just equality as a right and a theory… but equality as a result. (Porter B6). Maybe the world hasn t exactly found equality as a result, but with Affirmative Action, the world is a lot closer to equality than without it. CitedWorks Applebome, Peter. Affirmative Action Ban Changes a Law School. New York Times. 2 July 1997: a14. Ayres, B. Drummond, Jr. Affirmative Action Battle Moves to Courts. New York Times 1 Dec. 1996: 34. Benac, Nancy. Clinton Defends Preference Programs, Backs Reforms. Associated Press Writer. . 19 July, 1995. Buckley, William F., Jr. The Two Sides. National Review 14 Oct., 1996: 95 Cousens, Frances. Public Civil Rights Agencies and Fair Employment. New York: Praeger, 1969. Hair, Penda D. Color Blind-or Just Blind? Nation 14 Oct. 1996: 12. Once to Every Man. National Review 16 June, 1997: 12. Phillips, D. Rhys. Equality in Employment. Ottawa: Canadian Gov., 1985: 285 Porter, Horace. Affirmative Action: 1960 s Dreams, 1990 s Realities. Chronicle of Higher Education. 29 Nov. 1996: B6
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