Afirmative Action

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representative individuals and concepts of race should not be held with any degree of confidence in its validity. The fact of the matter is that broad genetic similarities between individuals from different groups would overlap the defined boundaries of each race. Despite this fact, people still hold their racial prejudices and feelings of superiority.
The main reason for this perpetuation, in my opinion, is that racism begins in the home. Parents allow their misconceptions of race to influence the beliefs of their children. The effects of being brought up with prejudices against groups of people can vary from disassociation with individuals from different “races” to the confluence of extreme hate groups like Neo- Nazis, Race Power organizations, and the overly publicized Ku Klux Klan. These groups have been sited for extreme violence, hatred, and the murders of individuals who were guilty of only being associated with a specific race. With a little thought about why we hold these beliefs we probably would come to the conclusion that the...