Affirmative Action to promote Equal Opportunity in the United States is Justified

First I would like to start off by stating that the terrible grammar I presented in the run-on sentence was on purpose. When defining the resolution, I took the definitions and input them where their origins were, so it started out like this: Resolved: affirmative action to promote equal opportunity in the united states is justified. And then after defining it from Black's Law dictionary- which is the dictionary used by the supreme court, the congress, lawyers, lower judges, etc. -it turned into this: Resolved: taking steps to increase the representation of historically excluded groups in employment, education, and business to encourage the concept of choosing equality before law is consistent with the principles of justice and right. There is NOTHING right with encouraging the concept of equality before law. What is the point of law if we are choosing to be equal before we choose law. Justice is also defined as the fair and proper administration of laws- (also Black's Law dictionary) Justified is defined as administers justice, so if justice is equitableness as you have defined, and equitable as I have defined is being consistent with the principles of justice and right, then that means that we must look toward my secondary definition of justice, which I just presented. Justice is the fair and proper administration of laws. If equal opportunity is the concept of choosing equality before law, then equal opportunity is not the fair and proper administration of laws. Therefore, voters should look toward the CON side just off of this semantic evidence. But… I think it's not fair to want to win off of semantics alone… So I will also rebut your arguments. In the mid-1990s a relatively high fraction of minority students at the University of California (UC) were admitted "by exception"— that is, by a process that bypassed the standards for high school grade point averages and standardized test scores. For example, in 1996, 23% of black freshman enrollees and 11% of Hispanic enrollees were classified as admitted by exception, compared with approximately 2% of Asian and white enrollees. This goes along with the 70% of the minority applicants failing out. You can read all about it on http://emlab.berkeley.edu... , but make sure that you read the whole thing instead of just taking that first page, because it starts off looking bad but the end result is the fact that we are filling out slots that many people don't deserve. And I just want to restate this. This is powerful, and I strongly agree with it. Martin Luther King, Jr. – leader of the civil rights movement for minorities stated… "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. " STOP JUDGING OFF THE COLOR OF PEOPLE'S SKIN. I see in your profile that you are latino. So you do fall under the category of affirmative action. Do you enjoy being labeled as a minority? Sorry bud, you are, so therefore I'm going to higher you to this job or accept you to this college even though this white man is more qualified. That is what I mean by a crutch. WE NEED to judge based off of merit, not off of skin/sex/ethnicity/religion, etc. I stated "affirmative action will never truly promote equal opportunity" Because 5 out of 50 states, 10% of the states, have banned the use of affirmative action. The resolution states "in the united states" if 5 don't follow it, we have 5 states with different opportunities, so equality will never be truly reachable in the US. Sadly I do not have the time to rebuttle much, but you didn't give me much to work with because I gave you facts and statistics, and even semantics, yet you only gave me semantic/emotional arguments. Give me facts. Oh, and what you misunderstand is that Aff. Action also includes women. By affirmative action, if a company has a woman as a CEO, first off they are called an "underprivileged" company. Second, they receive more tax refunds. If you don't believe me- Look it up.