The United States government should continue to uphold Affirmative Action legislation

"When I posted my sources, I did not mean them as being my argument. I made my argument, then posted the source where I received my information from" - Con.Let's revisit this:"And also, we should not have to need Affirmative Action laws. Affirmative Action was in a basic sense solved in the Civil Rights act of 1964." - Con. Source provided: the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Unless I'm mistaken, when a solution is provided for any problem, evidence of the solution's success (or lack thereof) occurs 'after' the solution has been implemented. No page of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 can provide evidence that affirmative action was solved by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Comparably, I'm sure we can agree that the Declaration of Independence 'started' the revolutionary war, and cannot be submitted as evidence that either side 'won' the revolutionary war; and that no page of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) can provide evidence that health care became more affordable for patients between 2010 and 2012. I find it confusing that anyone would provide "The Civil Rights Act of 1964" as evidence that "Affirmative Action was in a basic sense solved in the Civil Rights Act of 1964," and that's why I stated that it "requires more explanation than the pasting of links provided by my opposition."My opposition believes our corporate and political systems reward each individual proportionally according to what the individual deserves as shown in the following quotes: "If you want equality then you should be treated the same. If one group of people gets benefits, shouldn't every group?" - Con"The problem with that is it is due to their own fault" - Con. [note: just because I used the word "racism" first does not mean I was the first to bring it to the conversation]."By giving one race a benefit merely because they are less represented in the workforce would be racism to the other races" - Con.I believe all people deserve the same opportunities, but are not necessarily awarded the same opportunities. I view the above statements - not derived or deduced, but stated as if axiomatic - as a blind sort of faith, with none of the psychological checks or balances that would have awakened a person to the inequality of races and genders prior to the Civil Rights Movement or the nineteenth and thirteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution. This faith, and its inconsistency with history, is difficult to trust.The above statements also assume that previous injustices from one race to another have simply healed overtime. Economically, this is simply not true. Economically, the poor tend to get poorer while the rich get richer; white people exported cotton and tobacco to Europe for a century without actually picking any of it; the end of the slave era did not give African Americans the land or resources they had earned; and the right to sit in the front of a bus 85 years later provided no 'reset' button for the economic status of African Americans. Affirmative Action costs virtually nothing, and may even have a positive economic return. If a calculation were made of the United States GDP growth due to the efforts of African Americans in the past two centuries, the cost of repaying that debt would feel painfully unrealistic. The United States is fortunate that African Americans continue to contribute to the society, and that they tend to consider themselves Americans who want this nation to be great, and feel no desire to bring about its bankruptcy. But Affirmative Action costs nothing. Psychologically, African Americans are fighting an uphill battle for equal economic status and opportunity from the day they are born. This was demonstrated by the "Doll Test"[1] in Brown vs. Board of Education, in which it was demonstrated that segregation causes a low self esteem in black children, and was demonstrated by a similar "Doll Test" in a 2005 study of children in Harlem, N.Y, which concluded that the culture favors the self esteem (and therefore the mental development) of white children over black children [2]. We are all created equal, but our system is not designed to hand out equal opportunity. The weaknesses of Affirmative Action appear to be that it has erred on the side of caution, taking small, tentative steps; handing out employment incentives and education incentives favoring a race that has earned far more than it has been given. I am not proposing in this debate that we expand Affirmative Action, but incentives for schools and employers to equalize the opportunity gradient between races is the least we can do to push for true equality.1. http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu...2. "Our children are bombarded with images every day that they see on television screens and on coffee tables—either the light-skinned female that everybody is pushing or they give preference to the closest to White images." Julia Hare. http://www.finalcall.com...