Racial Profiling
Drachman, Edward R., Robert Langran, and Alan Shank. "Case 4: Race-Based Affirmative
Action in College Admissions: Keep It, Mend It, or End It?" You Decide: Controversial cases in American Politics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. 47-67. Print.
"Colleges have given three main justifications for affirmative action policies that would aid certain minority applicants, especially African-Americans and Hispanics: to compensate for long-standing practices of discrimination; to achieve diversity of the student body; and to overcome 'underrepresentation' of historically disadvantaged groups" (47).
"In California in 1995, the Board of Regents decided to stop race-based admissions, and the next year voters passed Proposition 209, which ended racial preferences in all public-sector state programs including college admissions; and laws were soon enacted in Washington State and Florida prohibiting state universities from using race-based admissions policies" (48).
"Critics of racial preference in college admission argue that:
The U.S. Constitution, especially the Fourth Amendment, protects individuals, not groups
The Constitution calls for equal protection under the law, and so should our laws
College admissions should be based mainly on merit as determined by grade point average and standardized test scores
Affirmative action penalizes applicants who themselves were never guilty of discrimination
Colleges at various times discriminated against unprotected groups such as Jews and Asians
By opening college doors wider to historically disadvantaged...
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