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commit juvenile acts, resort to finding their own after school hangouts. Debbie Turner, (a mother of one of the girls interviewed in this article) like most working parents in the area was mislead about the people her adolescent daughter was spending time with after school. What Debbie did not know was that her teenage daughter was sexually active with one of the lead members of the Nazi Low Riders who was currently in jail. Mindy was not the only unsupervised teenager in that area. A sheriffs department spokesman in Lancaster estimated that half of the valleys children were unsupervised. With nothing to do and nowhere to go, these young adolescents resided in many of these white supremacist gang territories, therefore leaving them to commit racist acts against blacks. Former NLR member Chris Runge recalls what he used to do and say and when he would spot an African American: Fuck you, nigger! I see em in an alley, say, Hey youre in the wrong neighborhood, and beatem down (Finnegan 289). In most cases, girls become impregnated by these gang members, with no other choice but to raise a family with hatred as a childs main surrounding. With such hardships that minorities suffer, the government thought to pass propositions such as affirmative action to enlarge opportunity for everybody. (Wilkins 236). Roger Wilkins author of Racism Has Its Privileges claims that, The idea of affirmative action is not to force people into positions for which they are unqualified but to encourage institutions to develop realistic criteria for the enterprise at hand and then to find a reasonably diverse mix of people qualified to be engaged in it. (236) Affirmative action serves as an allowance for those racially or sexually discriminated against, encouraging them to expand their horizons. Therefore, it serves as a support system of those people who fit the qualifications of such acts. Wilkins later states that Supporters of affirmative action believe that ...

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