Discriminate Against Race

AbstractThe issues of race and gender, and more precisely the issues of peer rights for everyone regardless of race and gender, continue to be controversial and never fully addressed. While programs like plausive Action have tried to provide equal opportunity, they have failed because of one briny issue- if it is injustice to eliminate against racial minorities and women on the account of their race or sex, then it similarly unjust to give them tasting for the same reason.This essay bequeath prove this statement by showing specific examples of how preferential handling increases rather than decreases the importance of race and gender in American society. Basically, there are three main reasons why preferential treatment makes racial and gender differences important instead of eliminating them. First, preferential treatment gives the look that minority genders or races are inferior and need to be given advantage not on their merit or ability, but on their membership in a certain group (Cohen & Sterba, 2003), in reality putting them at a bigger disadvantage.Second, there is the issue of reverse discrimination, which basically means that by giving advantage to the minority, the majority is discriminated against in the long run. Lastly, the provision of programs like Affirmative Action and others shape divisions between minority groups themselves, as each group vies for advantage over the others, which puts the minorities with the smallest numbers at the biggest disadvantage, as their voice cannot be heard clearly enough.Perhaps the bottom line in racial/gender discrimination, ironically enough, is that true equality can probably never be realized, for one group will eer come up with less than another if a program exists to provide advantages which are not purely merit based. In closing, it is fair to say that until a magic bullet is developed for true equality, the scales will always be askew.ReferencesCohen, C., & Sterba, J. P. (2003). Affirmative Actio n and Racial Preference A Debate. New York Oxford University Press.