American History X (1998) Director: Tony Kaye That is the problem with affirmative action. The powers that be only end up angering the party they deprive and making laggards of the community they are trying to help. Even though affirmative action's noble intention is to help to give a push to the disadvantaged and help them get a headstart in life, it just ends up creating a generation of snowflakes who feel entitled. Social studies in the late 19th and 20th centuries in the USA suggest that the Afro-Americans actually fared better in terms of economics and academic achievement before special privileges were set aside for them. According to Prof Thomas Sowell, the Civil Liberties Rights of the mid-60s actually put the blacks more backward than the rest of the society and their predecessors. On the other hand, race-based affirmative actions also anger the societies from whom privileges are seemingly cut. They would think that their life is not so hunky-dory either; why should they ...
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