Gloria Reina Bowen
I think affirmative action as a policy is needed and is necessary because it's a redress and it's a remedy for past wrongs that have happened 50, 100, 300 years ago-not only for African-Americans, but for people of color and women alike.
So as I said, it is a redress to redo past wrongs that were done in America's early history. Race-based policies have had a positive impact on most campuses, in my eyes, by adding diversity to the school that wouldn't be there if it wasnt for these race-based policies. I believe that these schools, if they weren't commanded to get these policies, they wouldn't allow these students in and the schools would just be of one ethnicity and of one background. Just so people could have a better learning experience and a better way of looking at things.
If the United States Supreme Court upholds the basic underlying principal of affirmative action, I feel it is something that we can work with, something that we can develop and just continue the fight to get it to where we need it to go.
My name is Gloria Reina Bowen II. I am of African American and Columbian descent, and I attend school at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
