Affirmative Action does not work to benefit the financially challenged. Because affirmative action was formed when discrimination was high, it made sense. However, in this age, since discrimination is abolished, minorities are getting a free pass, which is unfair. It provides diversity to our society that did not exist in the past. America was dominated by white males, but no longer.
Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person’s race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. Racial profiling is a serious human rights problem affecting millions of people in the United States in even the most routine aspects of their daily lives. The debate over racial profiling has become a central element in a much larger history of adversarial relationships between the police and communities of color. Already-existing tensions between police and communities of color became heightened over the past two decades as allegations of racial profiling by law enforcement agents against people of color increased in number and frequency. A "profile" is a coherent set of facts - known conditions and observable behavior that indicate a particular individual may be engaged in criminal activity.
Affirmative Action is banned in Michigan, as a result of the ban will racism, discrimination and prejudice e eliminated in the workplace, educational arena or our personal lives? Affirmative Action as a program has achieved its goal so now people feel like they’re over the race issue and they want to focus on other subjects. That doesn’t mean that it’s gone but it’s definitely at a way better level than it used to be. 11. What is your stand on Affirmative Action?
Various individual s such as students and adults think that lowering the drinking age would have a positive effect more than a negative one. However there should be no debate about this argument if keeping the drinking age at 21 saves lives. Certainly, it is evident that an excessive amount of people drink before the age of 21; thus, countless number of people do feel that the only way to stop this thing called underage drinking would be to lower the age to 18. Unfortunately, over 100 college presidents have chosen to address the issue by signing onto a group called “Choose Responsibility, whose key purpose is to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18 (Laura Dean-Mooney 1). It is obvious why college presidents want the drinking age to be lowered because it is one less thing they have to worry about.
They can be socially and economically endowed and they can be exempt for certain burdens or liabilities. Now that we know what white privilege is we can now tackle the question of does white privilege actually exist? In America civil rights is a big topic not just for blacks but for other races such as Hispanics and Asians. After the 1960’s and the civil rights movement in the 70’s America seemed to come together but equality was still far off for African Americans and Hispanics. After the civil rights era’s and all of the bills and supreme court rulings like the transportation equality act, prohibited discrimination In public accommodations, educations and employment, Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and the American Indian Movement just to name a few.
One of the major points against gun control is the violation of your second amendment rights, you have the right to keep and bear arms for personal protection. This paper will show there is no common sense in banning all firearms as a means gun control and it leaves law abiding citizens increasingly vulnerable to violent crimes. No Common Sense in Gun Control Over the past forty years, legislators have spent a lot of time, effort and revenue on legislation regarding gun control. Gun control advocates insist that increased gun control will lower the soaring crime rates of the early 70's. However, “recent research on the prevalence of defensive gun use has prompted growing concern that government efforts to regulate gun ownership and use may be counterproductive” (Ludwig, 2000, p. 363).
Since there are such differences between the wealthy and the poor in this country there're also large differences in the system of education from place to place. Throughout the years many have tried different solutions to attempt to close the gap. Under the Bush administration the No Child Left Behind Act was developed to address the Achievement gap. Since this Act, there has been a large amount of conflict concerning both the completion and the impact that the act has actually had on the achievement gap as it relates to Black and White students. This continuing challenge is deeply harmful to the African American community, to our state, our nation, and our democracy.
The University of California was the first big affirmative action case in history. It set a precedent that would help future Supreme Courts with their decisions. The precedent was that colleges could take race and nationality into effect while considering students for admission, but could not make it a sole requirement. In this case, Bakke was refused entry 2 consecutive years. The university had a quota system set up that 16 of the 100 spots open for that program would go to minorities, and Bakke argued that this was unconstitutional.
The pacifists guided King by showing him the alternative of nonviolent resistance, arguing that this would be a better means to accomplish his goals of civil rights than self-defense. King stated that African-Americans, as well as other disadvantaged Americans, should be compensated for historical wrongs. In an interview conducted for Playboy in 1965, he said that granting African-Americans only equality could not realistically close the economic gap between them and whites. He posited that "the money spent would be more than amply justified by the benefits that would accrue to the nation through a spectacular decline in school dropouts, family breakups, crime rates, illegitimacy, swollen relief rolls, rioting and other social evils"(Haley). Martin Luther King heled develop the Fifteenth Amendment and other major government decisions that helped get African-Americans and minorities “equal
Recent polls taken by the Pew Research Center and General Social Surveys show that the main reason for support of marijuana is that the American public fails to see marijuana has a major moral issue (Galston, Dionne 1). Compared to gay marriage or abortion, many more Americans are indifferent when it comes to others using marijuana. Those against legalization who consider marijuana to be a gateway drug and a vice argue that legalization will lead an overall increase in consumption of the drug. They argue that legalization will decrease productivity in the workplace, influence children negatively, and increase drug induced automobile crashes. However, the pro-legalization Americans respond in saying increased marijuana use has no lasting health effects, legalization will allow for better regulation of distribution, and marijuana legalization will reduce alcohol consumption in America.