by Shelby Steele
Affirmative action is an argumentative essay through which I have seen the process of a good argumentation. The writer first started by introducing what lead him to write about affirmative action, which was the fact that his children will soon go off to college and they will be asked to mark on their applications what their ethnicity is. Then he continues to tell the reader about his father who worked his whole life driving a truck for ninety dollars a week, even when he was a literate person. He then explain that to him it is crucial that America recognizes its past sins and wishes to corrects them, but he mentions that we are doing it imperfectly. As I read this story I became confused because many of the things Shelby explain are true, things like the fact that people do get preference by stating their ethnicity in a college application, and this is what this professor and also father is talking about. As he speaks about affirmative action he tells us that he is against it because it harms not only blacks but others. It is another way of characterizing people. I quote, “I think affirmative action has shown itself to be more bad than good and that blacks—whom I will focus on this essay—now stand to lose more from it than they gain.” This is through which I have not only learned but gathered very good information.
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