r not?" Fifty percent of blacks said they should not. While when the question of whether or not affirmative action is a plus or minus consistently blacks, other minorities, and whites see it as a good thing. These two statistics oppose each other. When the actual term affirmative action is used people tend to favor it but, when the concept is brought up only half of the minorities favor it. Do people just not know enough about it? So, affirmative action isn't doing it's job and eliminating discrimination. Although it's not that good now, if the courts came to more defiant standards it could improve. For it to work the whole idea has to be looked at from a different point of view. To solve the discrimination problem we have to get rid of it, that means on employment and college application forms we have to get rid of the race box. Because race shouldn't be a factor. It shouldn't get you a position or lose you a position....
