Читать реферат по английскому: "Racial Stratification Essay Research Paper Racial StratificationThere" Страница 2

(Назад) (Cкачать работу)

There are many factors that go into admission policies and the criteria used is diversified and many times these selective universities admit an applicant with a low SAT score over a high SAT score, by virtue of the community- mindedness the applicant has exhibited and at other times due to athletic ability. Is it unfair to allow race to be a criteria for allowing applicants in, when it is the future ability that they are being judged upon? Are 28 black students admitted at one of these selective institution unfair? With the fewer minorities admitted into these selective universities, it would be presumably so. Is it not a goal of these selective institutions to better prepare students for their future, not only academically, but with a community- mindedness that seems so absent in many white graduating students and isolating these students from exposure to different races can cause detriment to a sense of the American community mindedness so desparately needed for the future of this world. We should expect our institutions of higher learning to follow more than academic knowledge or we will only be educating those people who want nothing more than amassing wealth and power for themselves without any regards to better the community, states or country, from which they garner their living.

These kinds of people comprise the upper elite of this country, who have sheltered themselves behind gated communities or who have moved out of America entirely and have expected not to pay taxes, such as the heirs to Campbell soup, among others who have expatriated themselves. These are the kind of people who have created a caste system of life in America, for which they blame those people who have the least influence and power, for the American debt. They are the elite, who own most of the media, that spoon feeds us what they believe we should know and sets up a few of their hand-chosen candidates for the electorate to vote on, and vehemently deny that a ruling class exists in America; but as Mr. Lind explained in his article, “To have and not to have”, “the American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist….”

These are examples of the kinds of people these prestigious institutions have provided our country. What should be expected from selective colleges is to admit people of a wide spectrum of backgrounds, including races, in order for our country to benefit from the variety of cultures and this would reflect throughout our entire system. Then more races and cultures would not only be better represented within the student body, but in faculty and administration, and only then could the statement that affirmative action is no longer needed.

The statement that affirmative action no longer is needed demonstrates the lack of real vision these selective colleges possess. It is imperative

that races come to know each other, in one of the best arenas life has to offer for such a pursuit, the institute of higher learning. What does it say for our country, when we are saying that the best mind of our future can not co-exist in our top universities? When we must ask questions such as this one, how much progress have we really made in our country? The irony is we are not speaking of some ignorant place in the far past that we are looking up at a movie screen, but we are speaking of the places where great minds are supposedly being honed by supposedly great minds.

There is friction between the races within these selective institutes, but there is also friction between the sexes, and between those who have more influence or more wealth and the list could go on, but racial friction seems to be the major friction that these selective institutes single out. Instead, these selective institutes should be handling the racial friction with a better approach than simply saying in essence, “let s get rid of the problem.” It is hard to believe these prestigious colleges have not considered better avenues to cope and deal with racial friction and if not, then why not? It couldn t be lack of resourcefulness, not at these institutions.

The proposals offered to replace affirmative action, such as a kind of colorblindness. Is this a proven theory? Where and when has this been successful? Is there statistics and studies that have shown that we have finally accomplished racial equality? The answers to all these questions is a resounding “No!” If we must go on evidence, all evidence has proven that we have not rid ourselves of racial inequality; to say we have, is to ignore the evidence we see surrounding us in our daily lives. “Anybody choosing to see the oligarch in its native habitat need do nothing else but walk down the street of any big city to an office tower housing a major bank, a corporate headquarters or law firm or a national television station. Enter the building and the multiracial diversity of the street vanishes as abruptly as the sound of traffic,” Mr Lind explains.

This proposal is based upon the fact that minorities have accomplished to succeed, but in very small numbers and the higher one climbs, the fewer the numbers of minorities can be seen. This is enough for these selective institutions to declare that affirmative action is no longer needed, but what they are missing to link is the minorities that have succeeded have done so largely because of affirmative action. The best evidence available supports the fact that affirmative action was not counterproductive but, indeed, accomplished its goals; and it would almost seem because it did

Похожие работы