<p>“Dbate, if you think the system needs to be changed how exactly should it be changed? You feel sorry for Asians but then you still think there should be an allotment for lower income people. The way I see it, the only way to stop all the fuss over AA is either to eliminate it or keep it the way it is. Any tweaking will still keep things the same. You have to do one or the other. Cant have both. So either you discriminate or you don’t.”</p>
<p>I know the question’s not directed towards me but here’s my $.02. I’m currently against the current AA system, but I believe at one point in this world it served a purpose. To give minorities a chance when they were obviously being discriminated against. Now, however, although racism still exists, it’s definitely not as bad as it was then, and is generally looked down upon by the American public(look what happened to George Allen). Nowadays the disparity comes more from one’s socioeconomic status. A lower income child, no matter what race will always face hardships that higher income children won’t have to deal with. So if AA changed to consider socieconomic status over race, I’d have no problem with it since that’s fair. People aren’t poor because they’re black, or rich because they’re white. They’re poor due to their economic situation. </p>
<p>Which is precisely the problem with AA now. AA somehow assumes that because I’m Asian I have more advantages than African Americans based soley on the fact that I’m asian. It’s no different from assuming some random black guy is a criminal. It’s the same type of stereotyping. I think we’ve advanced far enough as a civilization to eliminate the need to consider race. So in the end if we can change AA to combat the problem of the disparity between class, it’d be a lot better. Thus I don’t think it the concept of AA should completely disappear, just tweaked.</p>