cent of college students in the United States are African American, Latino or Native American (Affirmative Action).In conclusion the use of affirmative action programs is not to promote reverse discrimination, lower testing scores, or set minorities up to fail. On the contrary these special programs are needed to further racially equalize the educational system, and have been proven to not lower universities academic test scores. Affirmative action programs do not set minorities up to fail whether it is at the university or in life. Even though times have changes for better for equality, the need for these special programs in the admissions process are still greatly need for the admission numbers are still far from equal. Affirmative action programs must, and still be used in order to promote equality and to give all races an equal opportunity at an education....
