In conclusion affirmative action is most certainly America’s most ambitious attempt to make amends to minorities and women for the discrimination and even persecution that they have faced throughout their history in America. While the policies of affirmative action seem to have good intentions one can not deny that such policies seem to incite, rather than ease, the nation’s internal divisions. The divisions are not the only problem though but also the studies that show that affirmative action doesn’t even really work unless you are a white middle-class woman. So what is to be done with the inequality in America? If I had some masterful flawless plan I wouldn’t be a student at a
public university but rather a famous scholar occupying some prestigious government job. My answer though is that there is no answer to inequality in America and that all men are not created equal and will never be equal. Maybe my view is pessimistic but I seriously do not think that America would be able to operate if indeed all men and women were equal. Without inequality there would be no such thing as competition in America. If everyone were equally educated all Americans would require the same wages which would lead to the U.S. dollar becoming worthless and who would occupy the jobs that the working class and the lower class now hold, such as janitors and garbage men. Without an uneducated class to occupy these positions the economy would literally be destroyed. I’d certainly rather be a little cynical than have my home be a country that is falling apart at the seams.

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