I think there's a fine line between ensuring equal opportunity and providing preferential treatment.
Is Affirmative Action still needed? I'm not sure.
I'm not old enough to know firsthand and remember a time when prejudice was the status quo. Although it still exists, it seems to be something that is more insidious and hidden instead of outrightly stated.
Honestly, I don't know where I stand on Affirmative Action. I think we need to guard against punishing or rewarding people based on race (or sex, or any other peripheral factors), and if Affirmative Action serves that function, then it should be abolished. However, if it does indeed protect against unfair bias in hiring and promotion and admission, etc. practices without punishing qualified and accomplished non-minorities simply because of their race, then perhaps it is good and necessary. I suppose it all depends on how it is put into practice.
And how's that for a wishy-washy comment? Hahaha.
