Affirmative Action Doesn’t Work

Introduction I. As once stated by John Kasich, Affirmative march has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. II. My partner and I stand against the resolution which states Resolved Affirmative action to promote cost opportunity in the United States is justified. III. We will show you that Affirmative action to promote opportunity in the United States is justified because Affirmative exploit Doesnt Work, Affirmative Action Stigmatizes Beneficiaries, Affirmative Action is not take awayed. remains I. Affirmative Action Doesnt Work A. Affirmative action creates issues in college. Sander, Richard H. Affirmative Action Hurts Those Its Supposed to Help. Triblivenews. com. 2 Jan. 2005. Web. 02 Mar. 2010. . gibe to Richard Sander, (law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles) Traditionally, critics of affirmative action have focused all on its unfairness to those groups that dont receive prefe rences (usually whites and Asians) or on the inherent contravene between racial preferences and the legal ideal of colorblindness.Over the last some years, however, a new and potentially even more damaging debate of inquiry has emerged the idea that racial preferences may materially harm the really people they intended to benefit My research over the last two years, using recent data that track more than 30,000 law students and lawyers, has documented even more serious and pervasive mismatch effects in legal education.Elite law schools erect very substantial racial preferences for wispys, Hispanics and American Indians in order to create student bodies that ar as racially diverse as their applicant pools. Because these elite schools admit the corrosive students that second-tier law schools would normally admit, second-tier schools, to keep up their minority add up, also offer big racial preferences.The result is a cascade effect bug out the law school hierarchy, leaving 80 part to 90 percent of baleful students at significantly more selective schools than they would get into strictly on their donnish credentials. B. II. Affirmative Action Stigmatizes Beneficiaries. A. B. Affirmative Action programs rat minorities studies prove Michelle Wu, senior writer, April 2, 2009, Affirmative Action grungetizes minority students, Daily Princetonian, http//www. dailyprincetonian. om/2009/04/02/23248/ According to Michelle Wu, senior writer Affirmative action may increase academic pressure and stigmatize minority students, according to a study conducted by sociology professor Douglas Massey GS 78, If white students believe that many of their black peers would not be at a college were it not for affirmative action and, more important, if black students perceive whites to believe that, then affirmation action may hence undermine minority-group members academic performance by heightening the social stigma they already experience because of race or ethnici ty, Massey and his three collaborators wrote in The record of Higher Education on demonstrate 27. The researchers also presented another detriment of the controversial insurance policy that affirmative action exacerbates the psychological burdens that minority students mustiness carry on campuses. III. Affirmative Action is not a need A. B. Obama proves affirmative action is no longer necessary Joseph Williams and Matt Negrin, March 18, 2008, Affirmative Action foes point to Obama, Boston Globe, http//www. boston. om/news/nation/articles/2008/03/18/affirmative_action_foes_point_to_obama/ According to Joseph Williams and Matt Negrin, March 18, 2008, staff writers of Boston Globe prima(p) opponents of affirmative action are increasingly seizing on Illinois Senator Barack Obamas past run for the presidency as proof that race-based remedies for past discrimination are no longer necessary. Influential Republicans and a growing number of policy specialists at conservative organiza tions, including the Goldwater Institute, Project 21, and the Manhattan Institute, are citing the fact that large numbers of white voters are supporting Obama, who leads in the race for Democratic delegates, as evidence that affirmative action has run its course. Ward Connelly, a black conservative who is leading a national effort to ban racial preferences, vowed to use Obamas