If there are people who resent minorities for being disadvantaged, then they are idiots, plain and simple.
Affirmative action doesn't create resentment, that resentment was already there in the first place...decent people don't resent. And they don't "miss" opportunities. Minorities are not unfairly being given jobs, they actually work hard and qualify for them. In the small amount of cases where they are chosen as tokens, it is for numbers purposes and they are sacked soon after. For instance, in one public school in my city, they admit insanely high numbers of kids in 7th and 8th grades, admit a ton of minority students, give them poor quality teachers, because they don't expect those kids to last. They then kick out poorer performing students so that by 9th grade they have the class they want. The minority kids in the 7th and 8th grades are used for numbers...
Anyways, affirmative action isn't removing opportunities from majorities...if they feel resentment, they are probably uneducated.
I know no minority who would say affirmative action works against them.
Look at the numbers, there are clearly still gaps...
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2012/09/04/race-and-gender-in-higher-education/Now, there is not an equal shot for poor kids trying to go to college vs non poor.
I'm sorry, but quality of public schools depends on the wealth of the neighborhood and the students attending. It just does. Go to the poorest performing school, you will find it is poorly equipped, large classrooms, overwhelmed teachers, and kids who are living in poverty. Are they prepped for college? Do they graduate? IF they graduate, do they do so with a quality education in their pockets, or were they passed along and taught the 'tests' only?
There is plenty of literature demonstrating the gap. Not only that, there is also literature on implicit racism taught by teachers. For instance, black females are encouraged more in school, and black males tend to be assessed more harshly in terms of behaviour.
Also a lot of kids who have issues such as ADHD/ADD, in minorities are not diagnosed because bad behaviour is simply 'expected', because....well, racist stereotyping.
Things are not equal.
And btw, I strongly point out that there is a big difference between being "poor" and being impoverished. Being poor simply means you have simple means, or no means...just a lack of money. Being impoverished is a whole nother shit pool of having little or no money, but also living in a broken community plagued with violence, crime, and nothing to do...growing up the subject of other peoples distrust, with no purpose, and very few people to care for you. Kids who tend to under perform are the ones who are not only poor, but also impoverished...and that kind of poverty, where a whole entire community and environment is in shambles, doesn't happen overnight...and it doesn't happen on accident. And stick a school in the middle of that and see how many good teachers apply to work there, and see who donates to fund the school, and see who cares about the kids at all.
Corruption in jails, in law enforcement, lack of opportunities, and the historical migration of poor people to inner cities and their treatment there all plays into such a situation. It isn't isolated...
So if it were just poor people, then simply poor people would probably have a good chance...they might no have the best equipt schools, but the environment would be conducive to learning. But these aren't poor people, they are impoverished.
going off on a tangent...
