Do you approve of affirmative action? explain.

Affirmative action is discrimination.
A person should be judged on their abilities, knowledge, ethics and personal conduct, etc.
It is not possible to undo injustices of the past. We need to take personal and social responsibility to correct social injustices. We can not ignore certain facts related to who we are as individuals. There is sometimes a preponderance within some populations for specific traits that are not conducive to the objective pursuit. Instead, we need to correct social injustices through socio-political reorganization, where we can openly discuss these inequities and recommend to individuals practical steps and measures that they can take (if they so choose), to correct these.

My opinion is going to be biased because affirmative action does not help me. As a white American, I am going to have to work twice as hard as many of my ethnic friends in order to get into the colleges that are basically GIVING them admissions for what? We'll both be getting the same degree.

Not to mention that a lot of them are immigrants receiving many government benefits and immigrant-related scholarships, but I am less important because I am white? I forgot that white people can't be poor anymore.

I think it is crap and it degrades the education system. Students should be let in based upon their individual merits. Affirmative action isn't going to encourage minorities to reach for higher education - if they don't want to go to even free public school in the first place, how is opening the doors of a prestiguous college going to help the matter?

This only aids the "entitlement" issue. If you show people that they will get more benefits due to their race, they are going to end up with the mindset that, by sheer virtue of the history of the treatment of their race and by virtue of their skin color and ethnicity that they are entitled to those benefits and they are somehow more deserving of them. Government programs showing preferential treatment have created a generation of "You owe me". Do we really need that mentality seeping into the more educated sections of our society too?

Sometimes I feel that if my skin were something other than white, all of the work that I do for my future might be considered impressive.

I understand the why's of it, but I think it ends up degrading everyone. Those it discriminates against by telling them their higher grades don't matter if they are white. Those that it aims to benefit by forever leaving a cloud over their head that they only got the place or job because of the color of their skin.

I approve of affirmative action and diversity.

The white race needs to make reparations for the ill treatment it has perpetuated on other race's.

And lets not even get started on the issue of slavery. In all honesty to make just about everything the way it should be, black people shouldnt be required to pay taxes.

Let's not give anyone any chances to do good. Then blame them when they turn to a life of crime. Makes sense to me.

I don't get why people are against affirmative action since everyone is not given the same opportunity. I had to work real hard in a mostly hispanic/all minority school. My school is on academic probation and regarded as one of the worker schools in Illinois. I seen people give up and fail, heard of people getting killed and knowing people getting killed. I doubt some of you guys have to go through this. I'm going to a state university and I believe affirmative action help me a bit but I had to work extremely hard to get here. I will never understand you like you would never understand me so affirmative action is a weird subject. I am happy with all I went through because it made me the person that I am today.