Anti-Affirmative Action
...ly because they are white. A young woman named Barbara Grutter, a white female applicant, was rejected from the University of Michigan so that a less-qualified minority would be accepted. She isn’t the first white applicant to be shot down either. Other white females and males were rejected because of their skin color, and the University of Michigan seems to not be changing their methods. When this story was presented in the Teen People issue of October 2003, a biracial female said that she always has to think that if she got accepted to a college was it because she was biracial or because she was qualified? A white female from Detroit, Michigan believes that affirmative action is needed. Not only is this a problem within colleges but within work places as well. Ward Connerly, chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, stated that, “The government ought to be as blind to the color of my skin as it is to religion.” To me that is a powerful statement. It makes me think how our government, which is part of a country that offers equal job opportunities for all, can judge based on the color of someone’s skin. College application and job applications should rid of the questions that ask what color the person is and the gender. I’ve noticed that on state tests I have had to take in school, I was given a specific code that labeled me as white. So now I and everyone else, am being labeled with a code on tests? That is absolutely ridiculous. If a white male applies to the University of Maryland and an African-American applies to the same college, and the African-American is less qualified than the white male, he should not be accepted based on qualification. Why look at color and gender? Why not qualifications? They make us take SAT’s and all these other tests to get into a better college, but then they make no difference if the school is based on affirmative action. What’s the point of these tests if they’re just going to reject someone because of the color they were born with? I would find it degrading if I was accepted over a male, simply because I was a female. I want to get in based on my qualifications, not because I happen to be a female. Equal opportunity? I don’t think so. Equal opportunity is supposed to be about giving everyone an equal chance. Affirmative action goes against that, even though its supposed to be about it. If affirmative action was about equal opportunity applications would not ask about race or gender. Everyone should be chosen based on their qualification, based on how they do in life and in school. Not simply because their parents happened to be African-Americ...