Affirmative action should not continue

I accept this interesting issue that you have put forward and I ill be arguing in favor of affirmative action 1. What is affirmative action Affirmative action I always see misconstrued in American society. For affirmative action is a multifaceted program that has gone through many revisions due to a changing cultural atmosphere in America. The ultimate goal of affirmative action is to level the playing field that has for so long been skewed in favor of white men. By setting racial quotas for all programs that receive government funding. For instance I am in a government funded program in my school called the STEM program. This special education program received government funding from a program called race to the top and thus must have a student population that accurately reflects the population of my city with in a certain percent error. If this program was only composed of white people it could be inferred that their is a hidden bias in the program and that it must investigated or its funding removed. This is the basic principle behind affirmative action and it has been used and it has proven to be a extremely successful program that has helped desegregate government institutions or anything funded by the government. This helps country the systemic racism that has plagued America since its inception. I would also like to clarify many incorrect statements you made 1.Affirmative action is reverse discrimination No affirmative action is the use of racial quotas to insure that a population of any government funded program accurately reflects the population of the city or state the program is located in 2.Many of is also have grandparents who supported civil rights in the 1960s Firstly try and articulate yourself a little bit better. Secondly just because you don't participate in racism doesn't mean it does not exist and it also means that we should do nothing about it because you or your ancestors did not knowingly perpetuate racism 3.Many of us also have ancestors who worked in the underground rail roads disproportionately few Americans were involved in the underground railroad or any anti-slavery movements 4.Polish people and other white people were sent to nazi camps The discrimination and slavery is very different from systematic genocide and comparing them is incorrect and insulting to the 6 million men, women, and children that died in the Holocaust 5.Your diatribe on the Bosnian civil war Once again slavery and discrimination is not comparable to genocide 6. affirmative action is done to make up for passed injustices like slavery isn't discriminating against the person who actually was a Slave unfair Affirmative action is not limited to black people so this renders your entire argument invalid 7. If you are a bosnian muslim who came here after being raped in a rape camp and loosing your family and you are up against a black person who immigrated from Africa, did not suffer from racism like you and is richer and has had more chances wouldn't taking the black person just because of their race be... Cruel?. once again affirmative action is not limited to African Americans it is racial quotas that ensure that a government funded program is not being racist 8.Most white people don't have slave owning ancestors. Not all black people have slave ancestors or ancestors who were discriminated against here. Yes you are correct but that does not mean that their is not systemic racism that has become a intrinsic yet often unseen part of American life. For the biggest disconnect with your argument is to complain that affirmative action only exists because of past injustices such as slavery. However to hold that view point would imply that racism has disappeared from America which it has most certainly not. 9.70% of white people who came to America between 1607 and 1776 were indentured servants No 70% of the people who came to the Virginia colony were indentured servants which formed less than half of all colonists in America. Thus the reality was that a little more than 25% of American colonists were at any point indentured servants. Also most indentured servants were free after seven years the same could not be said of the black slaves that were later imported. So the two are not comparable in the slightest. 10.Diatribe on Cops and Doctors The medical profession is not affected by affirmative action so that argument is invalid and the lack of trust between police and citizens in Ferguson Missouri should reflect why we need a police force that has a racial ratio similar to the population it is protecting 11.White people are victims of racism Yes but they are disproportionately less likely to be discriminated against Conclusions Affirmative action has been the United States most effective ways of fighting hidden prejudice in America and to remove these safe guards would be detrimental to American society. https://www.aclu.org... On average, black men's prison sentences are 20% longer than white men's for comparable crimes: http://www.wsj.com...... Black people and white people use illegal drugs at similar rates, but black people are far more likely to be arrested for drug use: http://www.vox.com...... African Americans are far more likely to be stopped and searched (although the contraband hit rate is higher among white people) in California: http://articles.latimes.com...... And in New York (where the data isn't quite as good but appears to be comparable to CA): http://www.nyclu.org...... Those wrongfully convicted and later exonerated by DNA are disproportionately African American: http://www.innocenceproject.org...... Black kids are far more likely to be tried as adults and more likely to receive life sentences: http://www.nytimes.com...... Black former convicts get fewer employer callbacks than white former convicts: http://www.irp.wisc.edu...... Emily and Brendan are more hirable than Lakisha and Jamal: http://www.chicagobooth.edu...... On that front, this study is also interesting: http://psycnet.apa.org...... and similar results have been found in the UK: http://www.theguardian.com...... and also in Australia: http://ftp.iza.org... Also, this news story has some great analysis: http://www.nytimes.com...... High schools with mostly African American and Latino students are less likely to offer courses in Algebra II or Chemistry than high schools with mostly white students: https://www.documentcloud.org...... This article explores many of the other ways that increasingly segregated schools have negatively affected African American students: http://www.nytimes.com...... And this story discusses the fact that African American students are more than twice as likely to be suspended as white students--even in preschool. http://www.npr.org...... The ACP report on racial disparities in U.S. health care: http://www.acponline.org...... This (dated) study is also damning: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...... and there's lot of good info here: http://en.wikipedia.org...... More info on increasing disparities in life expectancy between black and white people in the US: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...... The most recent polls show fewer white people thinking racism is not a problem than the ones I used in this video (although still a huge divide): http://www.cnn.com...... and http://www.washingtonpost.com...... and http://www.thefiscaltimes.com...... Racial wealth disparity and the role that inheritance plays: http://iasp.brandeis.edu...... Related wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org...... The widening of the wealth gap: http://www.pewresearch.org...... http://en.wikipedia.org...