Focusing on Stanford, Affirmative Action has both helped and hindered the notion of racism. Stanford does acknowledge the fact that a truly color-blind world would be based on merit but that's not how it works in today's world, "Perhaps the most tragic side effect of affirmative action is that very significant achievements of minority students can become compromised." This is saying that even though a student may have outstanding success, that may be overlooked due to their race. Stanford admissions mentions a "diversity matrix" and how every action can be twisted to constitute racism.
Stanford University
Analysis
I agree with the claim that no matter which student gets accepted, there will always be someone to find something wrong with it. I believe that students should be accepted solely based on merit and if they happen to be a minority, it's an added plus. With this in affect, a school may not get the "diverse" label it wants but it will have the most qualified students attending. Affirmative Action was created to bring past injustices towards different races forward and to try to "repay" them back. Even with this in mind, many naysayers feel that Affirmative Action creates "favoritism" and promotes racism. Although not all responses were positive, Affirmative Action was a step in the right direction towards racial equality.
Comic depicting who gets the blame for other students not being accepted into their choice school
Not only is Chicago's police system corrupt but so are their federal district courts. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve writes about her personal experiences within Cook County's police system and judicial courts inner workings. She says that the police "spoke in overtly racist ways in court, mocked defendant’s
black-sounding names or used bastardized Ebonics to imitate the voices
of defendants, families and victims." When the police file their reports after an arrest including drugs, the phrases "fell out of their pocket" as the defendant "fled on foot" were common sayings that appeared. It became obvious that the police violated the 4th Amendment and judges felt no concern what so ever on this matter.
A Chicago police car
Analysis
All of these criminal cases have reason to be brought up to appellate courts as judges are not upholding the Constitution. The judges are aware of police perjury in Chicago as well, "In my interviews with judges and prosecutors, they willingly admitted
that police perjury was part of the culture of the court system in Cook
County. Twenty of the 27 judges I interviewed said that police perjury
occurred, six did not directly respond, and only one said that it did
not occur." If judges are aware of the injustices occurring in the city, why do they stand by and let it happen?
