The source I have chosen is the article titled Why Affirmative Action No Longer Works by David Frum, who delineates his view on affirmative action. Affirmative action is the act of inflicting benefits and advantages onto the people who suffer from discrimination, in order to boost them education-wise and employment-wise. Frum believed this policy as a 'compensation' for the discriminated, for the ones who were subjected to unjust racial remarks, so they could pursue what they wanted to do with everything being a fair game, but it turns out in society today, this action is anything but fair. Frum incorporates logos and anecdotes in order to convey his claim that the implementation of affirmative action was successful in the past, but in society today, circumstances have changed and now there is no need for it anymore. For instance, he included the statistic that one in six Americans marry someone who does not share their ethnicity with the spouse. This exemplifies the concept that we currently lack discrimination and nowadays we are more prone to be color-blind, that we don't mind someone's race or ethnicity as we did in the past. This is saying that we don't have a preference for people when it comes to one's color, disdainment in the past is not the same as what we have today, so why should affirmative action still be intact? Frum also included the fact that a Nigerian general can receive the same opportunities and treatment as an El Salvadorian immigrant and females as a whole, which speaks that our systems have changed immensely as over five decades passed. Affirmative action 'no longer works' because people are no longer discriminated due to the color of their skin or what their ethnicity on paper says, they are now considered for their efforts in what they do. David Frum believes that rather than being judged someone's race, people should be judged on their class. I agree with Frum's argument on affirmative action, that an advantage on education and employment should not be in effect. People who work extremely hard for their future may fall short because another person might take their spot, solely because of their race, which is unfair. Affirmative action should not be taken place because it can alter a lot of people's futures in an unjust perspective, someone should not have a boost because of what they are, but who they are. If anything, affirmative action is only creating a problem, rather than solving it, since they are only bringing up a problem of discrimination that does not exist.
~Jessica Wong
