Race-based affirmative action is inherently racist

TO THE EDITOR:

In response to yesterday's letter (Carolina Review writer's perspective is clouded"" March 23), when race is taken into consideration as with affirmative action, then the process is inherently racist.

The American ideal of equality ought to be a society in which race does not matter. When Americans are seen as a group and not broken down by race, we will then truly have equality.

But when affirmative action takes race into consideration, we are breaking down America into minority groups and making it more fair"" for one group than another. The problem is when you make it ""more fair"" for one group of citizens"" you must make it ""less fair"" for another group. Affirmative action based on race is in fact racist.

Unfortunately" the society President John F. Kennedy hoped for has not been realized because of affirmative action. The society that Martin Luther King Jr. hoped for when he said that Americans should be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin has not been realized because of affirmative action.

If we are to reach the ideal America that President Kennedy and Dr. King envisioned then affirmative action must go.



Jason Sutton

Sophomore

Political Science