Affirmative action policies should be justified in the US

Nevertheless, I will like to move on to my arguments. My first argument will be on the the equality from affirmative action with sub point A: Increase of diversity and sub point B: increase of greater opportunities to people, and I will post my second argument prior to my third round Lets move onto my first sub point, the increase of diversity. A large part of the Affirmative Actions laws specify minority percentages for employment. This means that companies cannot discriminate a person or refuse to hire a person, solely based on their skin color. Affirmative action tends to increase diversity in the workplace at a faster pace than normal market forces. In addition, no evidence suggests that contractors have to hire unqualified candidates to fulfill affirmative action requirements. The other side may argue that affirmative actions that the amount of diversity would actually be harmful to everyone but haven"t we proved that everyone has rights? The reason why affirmative action is there is because the policy suggests that everyone is equal and has the rights. African American women earned 63 cents to dollar for the jobs that men do, and Hispanic women earn 57 cents to the dollar. In addition, blacks have twice the unemployment rate of whites, according to Understanding Prejudice. This is why we need affirmative action. With all the ongoing racism, if we place this policy in, our society would be equal. Moving onto our second sub point, we can not stress enough on the fact that affirmative actions are increasing greater opportunities to people. Children of minority are much more likely to be subjected to poverty, violence, and other disrupting things in their past. This greatly impacts the education and schools of these communities. These laws help to give these students the help and boosts that they need to succeed in the world. Affirmative action programs have resulted in doubling or tripling the number of minority applications to colleges or universities, and have made colleges and universities more representative of their surrounding community. Statistics show that after California abolished its affirmative action programs in 1998, the minority student admissions at UC Berkeley fell 61 percent, and minority admissions at UCLA fell 36 percent. When affirmative action is put into place, it give the minorities so much more rights than they did in the past. We are giving the people who were discriminated in the past a chance to rise in our society now. The fact that other races other than these African Americans were on the the top of the pyramid, with Affirmative Action we are making things equal by letting these African Americans have a chance to also climb to the top as well. In our past, these African Americans had chances to get into jobs because they were smart enough to do so. But whites were only considered in these economic stances, smart or not. We are giving a chance to the past races discriminated and without affirmative action, how will we ever do so? I feel like with affirmative action, there will be equality among all races. I would like to hear a rebuttal from my opponent and their arguments as well Best wishes out to my opponents! :)