American Civil Liberties Union, Proposition 209 should be declared unconstitutional because it singles out women and minorities and, at a timewhen discrimination still exists, sought to preclude them from attaining constitutionallyguaranteed right, like jobs and schooling. (Ayres 34). As Rosenbaum pointed out,discrimination does still exist in our not so perfect world, and so far Affirmative Actionis our only solution; so why is California trying so hard to put an end to it? AbolishingAffirmative Action is not the answer. President Clinton spoke out in his speech forNational Archives: Let me be clear: Affirmative Action has been good for America, weshould have a simple slogan: Mend it, but dont bend it(Benac). Without even trying tochange the way Affirmative Action is implemented, California is ending it first. Thiswill prove detrimental to Californian society because it will cause more racial problems. The problem with the Affirmative Action debate could be that those arguing for itdo a poor job defending their position. Due to the fact that Affirmative Action has beenin place for more than a generation, critics have lost sight of how the job market andhigher education looks without Affirmative Actions stabilizing effects. Yet critics thinkthat Affirmative Action is a cleverly disguised form of racism and ineffective, but takinga look at what happens when there is no Affirmative Action, such as in the court case ofHopwood V. Texas reverse discrimination suit. A court ruling said that the University of Scott3Texas Law School was banned from using race at all in their admitting. AttorneyGeneral Dan Morales of Texas has understood the ruling as banning Affirmative Actionin admissions, scholarships and college recruiting programs. This ruling is now beingapplied to almost all Texas colleges (Applebome a14). As Peter Applebome puts it Texas and California have become laboratories fora world without Affirmative Action (a14)....
