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Anthony Schwartz Literature/Composition 10 – Gifted Mr. Craig 24 February 2003 Affirmative Action A presently obsolete and skewed affirmative action process “exacerbates racial divisions and tensions,” supporting superior preference to an individual based on race and socioeconomic status (Grapes 38). Affirmative action contradicts and disregards all morals society holds as a whole; it forces quotas into aspects of life to which race should hold no preference. When Lyndon B. Johnson first implemented affirmative action in 1965, he had positive intentions: “We seek… not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result” (Lyndon par. 34). Contrary to Johnson’s intentions for equality, however, affirmative action brews animosity toward minorities. It hurls one race against another. Although affirmative action has opened the doors for minorities in the fields of education and multiple professions, it does so at an unjust and costly price. Indeed, affirmative action has reduced racial injustices committed against minorities. For example, universities now accept more minorities all over the United States. Also, minorities now hold many executive positions for large corporations