Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference

This essay was very interesting, mainly because it’s based on one of those topics that we face in daily life but don’t necessarily think about too often. In almost every job they must have a number of black employees just because if they were to do otherwise, they’d be considered racists. The suggestion of affirmative action should help blacks but not essentially a preference. That is the issue Shelby Steele, the author of this essay, has with this matter. Affirmative action does not only come up in life for jobs, but it also applies for students when they are applying for college. Steele, being a middle-classed black him, does not agree with what affirmative action brings upon black people, or for matter Hispanic, or simply white women.