To Cookie Prices Based on Taste

I'm not too sure if I agree with the Berkeley Republicans Bake Sale, but they do bring up a good point about Affirmative Action. This really does need to be addressed.

AA is wrong.
Once you throw in affirmative action, you can no longer objectively view an accomplishment for any person of a minority group. It plants the seed in peoples minds that the person is where they are only because of affirmative action and not the person's own merits. As such, affirmative action does a disservice to everyone.

Each student you let in because of race creates one student you denied because of race. I don't care how small that margin is, it is immoral and illegal. This is 2011, race has no place in university admissions.

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