Affirmative Action

Both affirmative action and racism have to do with discrimination against a group or individual. In a sense, affirmative action uses racism to fight racism, and as every child learns growing up “two wrongs never make a right.”Affirmative action is just another form of racism and is promotes judging people based on their color. Martin Luther King Jr. had, “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.” Affirmative action completely opposes Dr. King’s dream that his kids would not be judged by the color of their skin. Martin Luther wanted to put an end to racism and make it so that when his kids applied for college they would be judged appropriately. In 1978 Allan Bakke was a white male who got rejected two separate times by a medical school that instead accepted less qualified applicants strictly because of their race. Since Bakke felt cheated, he took it to the Supreme Court, and in turn “The Court ruled that inflexible quota systems used by affirmative action programs violated the law, yet, in the same ruling, upheld the legality of affirmative action programs” (Stewart, Chuck). Now how is it fair that minorities are getting spots which others who are much more qualified are getting deferred from?