Affirmative Action
By: Victor • Essay • 270 Words • February 25, 2010 • 897 Views
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Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of a young man named Patrick Hamacher for a moment, you have worked very hard for the past three years and now you are a Sr. in High school. You have won the race and done everything you need pass and make sure that you graduate on time. Not a stellar student by any means but hey you deserve it just as much as anyone. On graduation day pomp and circumstance is being played, and all your classmates cross the stage with in amazing felling of accomplishment, but you have a feeling of bitterness towards some of them in your heart. You feel that some of the same people who you have grown up with and have gone to school with your whole life are being given an unfair advantage in the acceptance policies of a certain university that you just recently had been denied admission from. You feel that this thing called Affirmative action is not promoting the growth of minorities