Shelby Steele is opposed to affirmative action (as it exists today) based on the two premises, that it hurts the people it is trying to help and avoids fixing the problems that hinder blacks and other minorities to this day. He believes that affirmative action in itself is a bad policy. The hurtful effect that affirmative action instills is a psychological one. Affirmative action was unleashed in the sixties, largely due to the guilt whites …showed first 75 words of 1037 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1037 total…to represent ethnicity proportional to population in society. People proclaimed this was what diversity was. Preferential treatment once again brought race back into the limelight as a major factor in succeeding in society. The very thing that we were all trying move past as a species. I would propose a vast restructure of the nations infrastructure as far as taxation, education, and law enforcement in order to better guide and protect the poor and disadvantaged.