: About Me

For years, federal policy has rewarded corporations for hiring minority groups; the logic behind this is that those groups start off at a disadvantage and should therefore be given a boost in the competition for jobs and university admissions. However, this theory ignores the root cause of the disadvantages faced by these minority groups and rewards the wrong individuals. It is true that African Americans in the United States begin with a disadvantage. However, the root cause of this disadvantage is not racism; the root cause of this disadvantage is poverty. According to the US census, one...