Many people feel that race, color, ethnicity, etc should not be a reason to be chosen for things such as a job, or college acceptance.
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Many people feel that race, color, ethnicity, etc should not be a reason to be chosen for things such as a job, or college acceptance. However, I feel that in some cases this is not accurate. Things like athletic ability, and stature can be categorized by race, even things like who can perform their job better can sometimes be put in to the category of race. In my opinion this is the main purpose of the proposed affirmative action plan. The purpose of affirmative action is not to be racist but to better accommodate people of different cultures in our society. In our society today discrimination and profiling are highly frowned upon by the "politically correct" group of people. However what these people fail to see is that everyday we discriminate and profile things. We buy fruit because it's the right color, we eat at one restaurant as...

