Is affirmative action a racist policy against black people?
Is it a way to maintain “white supremacy” in America by changing the methods?
In his 1998 paper named “,” psychologist Kent Harber reports how, when a sample of white American students (44 males and 48 females) at Stanford University was given some essays of poor content, they tended to give higher scores when they discovered that the author was a non-white person, in effect showing condescension and thus using lower standards. This lack of objective criticism, Harber said, would compromise the concrete achievement required of the non-white group of students.
My personal belief is that this is the mechanism at the base of policies like affirmative action. Introduced in the two years between 1964 and 1965 by the administration of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, it originally had the noble purpose of compensating for the centuries of discrimination suffered by the black component of American society, which had also manifested itself in the prohibition of education for its members. The problem is that this compensation is nothing more than another form of discrimination called “positive”.
Just as with “negative” discrimination, positive discrimination attacks the “legal equality concept”…
