ouza, p. 233)Most Universities seek to promote pluralism and diversity on campus by setting up and funding separate institutions for minority groups; thus one finds black student unions, black dormitories, and theme houses, black fraternities and sororities, black cultural centers, black dining sections, even a black yearbook. (DSouza, p. 235)I cant help but feel that these actions are taken to an extreme. I feel that women and minorities should absolutely have equal rights in comparison to the white male. However, I feel that these examples that I have listed destroy that equality. By changing their acceptance policies, I feel that these universities have given unfair and preferential treatment to certain groups of people, while denying equal rights to others.Those opposed to affirmative action think that it is a form of reverse discrimination in which members of a minority are favored over whites who may often be more qualified than the minority applicant. Research shows that some reverse discrimination does occur but mostly when the bias carries few personal consequences for the individual favoring minority groups. (Davidio, A60) In situations where there are personal consequences, discrimination is still more likely to occur.In the last thirty years, surveys indicate white Americans have become less openly racist against blacks. Some would suggest that overt racism has evolved into more subtle aversive racism. In trying not to act in an openly negative way, indirectly some may favor whites over blacks (or other minority groups)....an employer influences by feelings of aversive racism might subtly re-evaluate the most important qualifications for a job, depending on the race of different applicant. If, say, a white applicant had broader experience and a black applicant had more up-to-date training, the employer would decide that experience was more important; if the white applicant had more recent training and the black more exp...
