Did the election of Barack Obama make affirmative action irrelevant?
The purpose of affirmative action is to basically even the playing field for the minorities and in this case blacks. According to affirmative action, these minorities(blacks) are born with a disadvantage socio-economically because they live in areas that are poverty-stricken and violent, which leads to bad quality schools. The course of action they take is to admit blacks into colleges to give them the opportunity of things white people have had for generations. In my opinion, the election of Obama as president does not make affirmative action irrelevant. Just because Obama is president doesn't make affirmative action irrelevant because he is just one black man while there are millions of blacks still living under poverty-stricken conditions. Furthermore, Obama is not even really the typical black man that affirmative action focuses on because was raised in Hawaii by a white mother. He didn't have the black experience that the majority of the average blacks go through. Affirmative action does not apply to him in the first place.
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