The Color of Change Response

The fact of the matter is that the color of your skin or your ethnic background should play no role whatsoever in college admissions, scholarship applications and other life changing decisions. Unfortunately, people have taken affirmative action to mean "to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently." This is completely wrong. The only thing that should be looked at when considering a student for admission or scholarships should be their scholarly and extra-curricular accomplishments. The students with the greatest accomplishment including best grades, most extra-curriculars and the roles they play among them. Also, teacher recommendations should play a heavier role due to the fact that these teachers have known the students in close contact for a year and many times more than that. Affirmative action should never look at any physical differences among people, but rather the intellectual differences between them.