Resolved: Affirmative action should be practiced in college admissions.

=========================================================================== CONTENTION #1: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROMOTES INEQUALITY: ===========================================================================RE: PRO has accused me of quoting him out of context and has claimed the following in attempt to clarify: "I never said it was reasonable to ignore the minority and focus on the majority, I said you need to focus on the community and not a singular person. The minority is not a single person." However . . . my fair judges, my opponent is STILL saying exactly what I accused him of saying. Indeed as the minority is not limited to multiple people. Minority merely means the individual or individuals whose characteristics in question are the least common amongst the group. To support my claim, I offer you with the following definition from the oxford dictionary: "minority • noun (pl. minorities) 1 the smaller number or part; a number or part representing less than half of the whole. 2 a relatively small group of people differing from the majority in race, religion, language, etc. 3 the state or period of being a minor." The first definition makes it clear that anything representing less than half is considered the minority. Given that one person is less than half, 1 would most certainly be considered the minority. Unfortunately, I'm running low on time, so I'll just leave you with this cited wiki article indicating other cases of affirmative action legal disputes as well as how controversies have centered around it positing discrimination (to pacify PRO of course): http://en.wikipedia.org... For a quick recap, my opponent's case is contradictory. At one moment, he is arguing that we should help the minority by giving it a boost. However, when I provide an example of what he perceives as the minority betting kicked down, my opponent merely responds by saying the majority is more opponent. In short, he kicks his own case in the groin. RE:" When a case of unfairness occurs, the Supreme Court will settle it " If the Supreme Court is to truly settle unfairness, affirmative action must be rejected. Otherwise, as I've shown, it creates unfairness. Even if you look beyond my example of an individual with superior qualifications losing to a minority who is hardly qualified, the fact of the matter is that judging individuals based on their own race is still inherently unfair (as I've pointed out previously) as the color of own's skin or gender is matter which one most has little to no control over. ============================================================================ CONTENTION #2. QUOTAS ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE RACISM ============================================================================ As you can see, PRO drops my arguments here. Pull this contention all the way across. ============================================================================ CONTENTION #3. THERE IS A SUPERIOR ALTERNATIVE TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ============================================================================ RE:"I didn't say your system would hold blacks back based on stereotypes, please read my posts correctly." PRO misunderstands me. I'm saying that the predicaments of most African Americans and minorities is brought about through racial prejudice (which is where many stereotypes sprout out at). As we speak, racial prejudice is being spouted due to the unfairness which individuals feel minorities are the cause of. Whereas minorities are getting handouts, other individuals are required to work much harder merely based on their own skin color. It's very much similar to the individuals who hate illegal immigrants due to them getting many jobs. If this sense of unfairness were removed, there would be no racial tensions in the first place, hence removing minorities from the predicament which PRO speaks of. RE: "And as for my opponent's second paragraph in that contention, a lot of blacks are intelligent, they just haven't been given the opportunity to succeed, college is that opportunity." Odd. Earlier, PRO was advocating that it was rare to find and intelligent black individual yet is now urging that lots of African Americans are intelligent. Even ignoring the subtle change in his position, it still fails to overcome my argument which eliminates racial tension. If my system is enforced, these intelligent black individuals can use their intelligence to succeed academically rather than rely on handouts and contribute to racial tension. VOTE CON. Sorry for the lack of a conclusion, but I'm outta time. :(