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Well, I read this and couldn't stop myself from posting it. I'm decidedly anti-affirmative action (at least in its current form), but it especially upsets me to see people putting the civil rights movement of the 50's and 60's into the same category as affirmative action of today. The civil rights movement was about equality. Affirmative action takes a step backwards into the category of discrimination. My question still remains that if affirmative action is truly there to help the "underprivileged" why is it based on race? Why is there no distinction between the help an inner-city poor black kid gets and the black kid of a wealthy doctor? And what about the poor white kid that grew up along side that inner-city black kid, or the poor whites of Appalachia or the South? Why don't they get any kind of help or support? To me they are just as in need of "affirmative action," as anyone else. If you want affirmative action, base it on acquired socio-economic factors, not inherited physical characteristics.