... "it is good in principle but needs to be reformed." Statistically, there seems to be a trend for African Americans to believe that affirmative action in higher education should exist yet they feel that it could be reformed to better fit the needs and expectations of today's society. The next issue is why affirmative action is considered a plague or unfair piece of legislature to people of privilege. These people of privilege are middle and upper class white students. Since I am in this class I can shed some light on how I felt about affirmative action without any prior knowledge on the subject. I felt that the purpose of affirmative action was to take away places of qualified white students and give them to unqualified minority students based completely on the color of skin. However, my opinion on the matter has drastically changed. Affirmative action is not meant to place ...

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