Affirmative action is for black people, not women, immigrants, or other “underrepresented” groups

Ashley Herzog
3 min readMar 23, 2022

This debate has been raging forever: Who should benefit from affirmative action, and how long?

I came across this post in my Facebook news feed and said, “This argument again?” The debate has been ongoing since the 90s about whether affirmative action should go to the descendants of people who were…

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Ashley Herzog

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