Affirmative action works. When these policies received government support, vast numbers of people of color, white women and men have gained access they would not otherwise have had. These gains have led to very real changes. Affirmative action programs have not eliminated racism, nor have they always been implemented without problems. However, there would be no struggle to roll back the gains achieved if affirmative action policies were ineffective. The implementation of affirmative action was America's first honest attempt at solving a problem, it had previously chosen to ignore. In a variety of areas, from the quality of health care to the rate of employment, blacks still remain far behind whites. Their representation in the more prestigious professions is still almost insignificant. Comparable imbalances exist for other racial and ethnic minorities as well as for women.The proponents of affirmative action point out that a lot of racial discrimination evidently exists in todayбпs American society. Therefore, affirmative action is necessary as a tool to reduce this discrimination. However, its opponents think that affirmative action is “a way of making up for past discrimination” because today racial prejudice rarely exists. Therefore, affirmative action is not necessary. Another point of conflict is that they have different definitions of discrimination. In the ideas of the proponents of affirmative action, the discrimination is basically racial discrimination, while the opponents of affirmative action define discrimination as unfairness against qualified majorities because of preferential treatment to unqualified minorities.Therefore, affirmative action should be a program to detect fairness in the employment and education system and at the same time give some benefits to the groups being prejudiced. For example, when the employers are hiring the employees, affirmative action should force the employers to list their requirements clearly and openly for all the employees. The qualified people should have absolute priority over the unqualified people. Affirmative action perpetuates biased practices instead of ending them. Most employers that have to hire minorities to fill some sort of quota are not concerned with the qualifications of applicants, but are merely filling a requirement in order to keep their own jobs. This, in turn, creates even more problems when the person doing the hiring is not the one to which the applicant will directly report. Affirmative action is an issue that affects all people in the United States. Its broad-reaching theory has allowed for many misunderstandings and misinterpretations throughout the past several decades. The emotions involved in the controversy over preference are powerful and often partisan. It is not my purpose to arouse these emotions or to persuade by means of them. Rather, I wish to inquire whether there are moral principles, commonly accepted, that are or should be decisive. American law on this subject is uncertain, even contradictory; however, the question here is not what the law but what morality requires.

. From what I saw here in the United States, child abuse is really quite serious and everybody is repulsed by it. If this happened to women, let’s say a women’s team in the university it would be different. The first prolific American serial killer who was a woman was Aileen Wuornos, yet she was still defended in some fringes of society as she killed men who she claimed raped her while she worked as a prostitute. But nonetheless, raping kids is wrong, period. When your an adult, you can be straight, gay, bi, or whatever your heart desires and it won't- or at least shouldn't- bother anyone. All pedophilia is an unacceptable disgusting and not societle. I would hope that if you change the players in this scandal to women, that they would voice this issue much sooner than the present ones did. I think that men and women both wouldn’t be as emotionally confused if it were women. I think the women will be equally as liable.

The fact that it was little boys adds a layer of homosexuality which our current society has no idea how to handle. Let's face it whenever a topic of homosexuality is brought up the ball is always dropped. These men are not men in their twenties in the new age of open mindedness. Instead the men of our administration are from a time that has no idea how to even talk about the topic of homosexuality. It was not suspicious for a man to be around a lot of boys and playing with them (a.k.a catholic priest). Which brings me to my next question so why was it okay now? Given the information we have today. The infamous case with Mary Kay Letourneau having consensual sex with her thirteen-year-old student was looked upon quite differently than the contemporary incident regarding Jerry Sandusky and the molestation of same-sex minors.

If the scandal involved women I think it would be a way different case. Even though women and children are the prize of our country its more likely for women to lie rather than children. In the past years women have been proven for lying on men saying that they were abused or raped. When one thinks of pedophilia, the abuser is usually viewed as a man. So, if it were a woman, the story would be rare, thus causing more media attention, but I do not think that the woman, who would be like Sandusky, would be treated as harshly because of her gender. If we would have found out that he was abusing women instead of the boys he was supposedly trying to help, he would still have been indicted and would be facing charges with the police but I don’t think that the fallout would have been the same.

I have noticed that in our society it is very rare we will win. Especially when you are a political figurehead, very popular individual or institution, or any type of hierarchy. I believe in the phrase when your right your still wrong, when your wrong your wrong, and when you have no opinion you are definitely wrong. In the case of Penn State and the devastating week we have been having, no matter what our emotions are and however we handled them we were still labeled the wrong doers. I feel like no matter what we do we will not be able to escape the fact that people will always portray us in the negative. This is something the media and outsiders who don’t thoroughly support this university have zero understanding of. They all believe the anger is for the wrong reasons, they all believe the frustration is for the wrong reason, and lastly they do not realize that as a whole us as students strongly and deeply feel for these victims and families who have had to deal with this. Penn State has always had the name recognition as a very prestigious school, which strived on pride and integrity, and a school that always did the right thing, before this Penn State was only 1 of 3 schools without a violation. I feel like our institution will always be mentioned with an asterisk because of some horrible excuse of a man, and then subsequently people in the institution that acted like cowards.The media is putting the negative focus on Paterno instead of Sandusky and thereby putting a terrible image on Penn State. It seems to some people like the Penn State name is ruined which is a tragedy. After reading what people outside the Penn State community have been posting on Facebook, Twitter, opinion articles, the TV and other open outlets I see that everyone is quick to judge and create connections that may not relate to each other. A lot of those who comment on the actions of Penn State students the past few days have commented in regard to us supporting an individual or ignoring others. Although the media is portraying the situation to our digression, the events on Wednesday night did not help our cause. The sad thing is that this was only the doing of a couple of idiots. Everyone else was watching to see what was happening and not participating. In addition, I’ve heard rumors of companies canceling internship offers. This also baffles me. Most of us were 9 or 10 years old when this happened. I didn’t know who Jerry Sandusky was, I didn’t know that I would be going to Penn State. What people don’t understand is Joe Paterno is the face of Penn State and Penn State is the face of the east cost.

Me personally I don’t like when people around me speak in different languages. I feel like it is very inconsiderate on the people’s behalf. I always feel like I am being targeted that’s a major flaw of mine but it is what it is. That being my flaw makes me very conscious of my surroundings im quick to react to a person I feel as though is targeting me or trying to look down upon me. If people are speaking another language around me I automatically think that they are speaking about me, and it irritates me the most when that happens. I know 9 out of 10 times they are not speaking about me and I feel like a complete idiot after im done having my idiotic attitude. I feel as though a lot of it has to do where you grew up to. In my neighborhood it was only blacks and we all felt the same way. The funny thing about this situation is that my parents are both from Africa and they both are very in tuned with their culture and both speak their native language. Every time they speak I know they are speaking negative about me well at least I feel that way. I feel like if I took time to learn my own family’s language I would care more about other languages in general. It really is best to develop and embrace a language when you are younger so you can learn from parents and direct face to face communication. Taking a language class now, the assimilation of the material can become ten times more difficult. I have been in concert lines, elavators, and other places and there were people all around me speaking other languages. I had never thought anything of it until one time when my father, who is not a racist person, said to me when people got out of the elevator, “Why don’t they just speak English? That is one of my biggest pet peeves. They understand and know we don’t know what they are saying and I know maybe they don’t want us in there business but at the same time, them talking like that can cause many problems. I feel like 85 % of the people that speak other languages amongst each other are highly well spoken in English. Obviously, learning to speak the native language of a particular country would be ideal, but that is not something that occurs overnight. I feel that it is less noticeable if I were to be with a group of friends and people around me were talking a different language. I feel like I should be more understanding to other people languages.

I think if our world was centered on black supremacist it would definitely be different. There would be a lot of positives and negatives in the world. I honestly think it would be completely opposite than what it is now. First of all Barack Obama would not be the first black President of the U.S, but I think there would not have yet been a white president. The thing with black people is that we have a lot of hate between ourselves and towards others. I do believe jealously is a trait that every human has but black people show it way more, we chose not to hide our emotions so when we feel a certain a way we choose to show it . I think we would be better off money wise because black people are more reserved with their money so we won’t spend the money on dumb things like a war. I also believe that we wouldn’t participate in as many wars as we did because black people don’t believe in putting themselves in other peoples problems unless someone comes and hurt America we wont involve our selves in war. We would have a lot of resources black people always find a way to maintain and obtain things when they really need them, and we have a way of getting things when we want them

The law would be different slightly I think most of the law will stay the same with some key differences. I feel like jails would be highly packed with white people but black people would equally be in jails to. Black people don’t discriminate when it comes to crime we equally discriminate against all criminals no matter their skin color. I think we would have less poor people in the united states because black people have a greater sympathy for people around them no matter what skin color you are, we always try to give out the helping hand because that’s just a trait we have yes we do have a lot of hate within us but at the same extent we are very care giving and we love to help people in need. I think the world over all would not like America because we would be so cocky and non confrontational because we don’t get in their problem. I don’t think slavery would of ever existed if blacks ruled the world I think there would definently be different classes but I don’t think they would have slaves. Overall if the blacks were the center of supremacy think we would honestly be better off, yea we would have our ups and downs but realistically overall it would generally be better for us.

Does my race effect how I view the world? I do believe that race plays a major role on my perception of the world. Growing up African American was an tough task that gradually got easier. First of all let me give you my perception on the world. I feel like African Americans have no one to blame but us. I feel like everyone goes through trials and periods were each race and ethnicity have gone through certain obstacles that they had to overcome. Slavery should have never happened nor should have segregation. But guess what these event happened, we have passed those event now we should use those events to make us stronger. Im not one to dwell on the past and I have that Black people like to complain a lot, and point the finger at everything and everyone but ourselves. We don’t use eachother as resources nor do we stick together as we should. A team will never win if there’s hate between them. Everyday I turn on the news I always hear how a another black individual has been murdered, arrested, or involved in some other crime. That’s why we have such negativity towards us from other races and ethnicity. Dark complexion already has a negative correlation with it, but its up to us to live pass the stereotypes, I know its just something’s that wont change, but knowing that shouldn’t stop us from attempting us to still try to change how we are viewed by the world. I figured that for society to work there has to be a good guy and bad guy. Blacks are the bad guys and we don’t help our image because we fall right into the stereotype. I also feel like the media plays a major role in blacks being identified as the bad guys in our society. We are represented by music, and movies. The movies and music we so enjoy reflect us all In negative ways they promote sex, drugs, and violence. The news is just like the music and movies but actually factually, the news show us black in negativity dealing with sex drugs and violence. But us as blacks give them the leeway to categorize us. If we start making positive decisions as a collective unit and stop hating on each other we will gradually grow. That’s my basic vision, we were put in a hard predicament in the past but this doe not meant that we cant prevail. I do feel like race makes me view the world different, I feel like us being people of color were put in predicaments that were expected not to get out of which causes so much hate between us and so much tensions to white people. Where I feel as though if we stick together like the blacks did regarding civil rights we will make changes for the better.

If my roommate were to tell me he were gay on the first day of school I would be very disappointed and would probably consider moving out. See if it were my roommate in particular it would be a little different. I have known my roommate for over 5 years now and we have built a brotherly relationship. If he were to tell me he were gay I would be a little disappointed because my whole life I dreamed of going to college my roommate and I being practically brothers and having sex with all the girls on campus. We would be known as the take down team, and him and I would have competitions on who get the most girls. Him coming out to me telling me he was gay would really crush all my dreams of the brotherly things we could have done. I would also be there for him because of the relationship we had, like I said we have known each other for 5 years, a certain change in sexually preference would not make me treat him any different. I would have to ask him question regarding comfort I wouldn’t want to do anything that would make him uncomfortable and at the same time I would ask him not to flaunt his gayness around the room that would make me feel really weird. I would not ever get dressed while he was in the room just from the fair if he were to be looking at me. I am very protective of my roommate because I look at him like a brother so I don’t let nobody bully him, so that will not change because he was gay I would still fight for him if I had to. I would also feel ashamed just because I know people will think that im gay just because I have a gay roommate especially if I fight for him, People never will think maybe im just supporting him because he is my roommate , it will automatically have to be because he is gay which means im gay. I wouldn’t treat my current roommate any different because nothing can break our bond no matter what. If I were to be put into another predicament were I didn’t know the guy then it would be different, I wouldn’t be as comfortable because I don’t know the guy I don’t know what his motives are I don’t know what he is use to doing so I would not be able to figure it out. Im not disrespectful so I would not be mean or call him out but at the same time I would be able to live with him it would just be too much to do. If it were after I got to know him then It would be a little different but I still think I would move out, but stay his friend.

I feel like race plays a major role on our overall outlook on criminals. I feel like race and poverty is the main two factors that play into how society views criminals. According to society the poorest people are mainly the criminals and according to sociology people who identify as blacks and Hispanics are the poorest people in our economy. I think the more you present yourself plays a major role in how people identify criminals. I have many experiences when the wrong race or economic class was accused of being a criminal or taking place in a criminal act. In my city of Philadelphia the cops come and harass my friends and me all the time just because of our appearance. We would wear baggy close and sag our jeans to the point were our underwear would be easily visible. There were many crimes that took place in our neighborhood, a lot of robbery’s, burglary, drug transactions and murders. It was funny how the people in our neighborhood and the police thought my friends and I always had something to do with it. “It has to be them 74th street boys” was the answer to everything. The funny thing is we had nothing to do with any of the crime that took place at the neighborhood. It was actually the white kids from 82nd that were doing all the crimes they would come on our end of the tracks and take charge. The difference is anywhere from 78th on up was labeled the suburbs of southwest Philadelphia. My friends and I were harassed for two years straight while the white kids kept doing the crime and this was because of our race, appearance, and our poverty. One night the white kids tried to rob a undercover cop around my neighborhood and they wind up killing him, after that the cops caught them and found out that they were the people who been committing all the crimes in our neighborhood for the past couple of years. The neighborhood was in shocked all the police and civilians were thinking it was a mistake it had to have been us at least one of the times. The funny thing is that these people were people that identified as black and they still believed us the black people did the crime. I don’t think its mostly white people that think we are criminals I think everyone stereotypes us as criminals because that’s how some of us present ourselves. My friends and I have noticed if we dress more socially acceptable meaning tighter fitting close with a belt to cover than we wont have any issues. Well we were wrong we still get harassed by the police but it actually declined a great bit. So I can say race does play a major role in how people are classified as criminals but its not from one particular group we are criminals to everyone even our own people.