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Essay Archive - Affirmative Action: Public OPinion vs. Policy
Affirmative Action: Public OPinion vs. Policy
When Justin Ketcham, a white college student from the suburbs, thinks about
affirmative action, he thinks about what happened when he sent out letters
seeking scholarships so he could attend Stanford University after being accepted
during his senior year of high school.The organizations that wrote back told him
their money was reserved for women or minorities. To Americans like Ketcham,
it's a matter of fairness. The average white male will claim that it's not fair
to attempt to rebalance scales by balancing them the....
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