Should affirmative action be abolished?
The answer is a resounding no. In 1968 the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder stated “What White Americans have never fully understood but what Negroes can never forget – is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.” This quote is as relevant today as it was thirty years ago with the increasing disparities in employ-met opportunities, salaries, benefits and job security between white males, minorities and women. Most of the small gains made by the civil rights movement are being eliminated. Racism and sexist attitudes are no longer publicly displayed. They are consummated behind closed doors and are culminated as subtle telltale signs that are almost impossible to prove with our existing legal system. While these tactics are subtle, opaque and perpetrated by unfounded myths, they are just as devastating as the old Jim Crow laws of the sixties.
