Dear Editor:
Recently, the University of Michigan has been under fire for their admissions policy.
The policy in question gives special consideration to minority applicants and places a quota on the minimum number of enrolled students who are from a minority background.
These policies were put into place during the time when the public was crying out for Affirmative Action to promote racial equality. The opponents to this say that white applicants are being put at an unfair advantage and that Affirmative Action has outlived its usefulness.
Racial equality is far away in our society. One needs only to travel to Detroit to discover that. Removal of laws promoting equality has been a tool of those who desire to hold whites in a position of power for decades. In fact, this has been the norm for more than a hundred years.
Several key laws and decisions come to mind, Jim Crow laws designed to “keep blacks in their place,” Plessy v. Ferguson in which the Supreme Court decided it was OK to segregate as long as it is “separate but equal,” and the list could go on forever.
Until we truly achieve racial equality it is important for our society to maintain laws that will promote equality. After all, everyone deserves a shot.
Mike Morgan

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