Millennials on Affirmative Action Policy

November 3, 2012

The October 2012 Millennial Values Survey shows that a plurality of younger Millennials oppose special efforts to help minorities get ahead because of past discrimination, and 63 percent believe that their gender or race will make no difference in their career. In this video, Ashton Adams, junior at the University of Kansas; Mohammad Usman, senior at DePauw University; Daniel Chen, junior at the University of California, Berkeley; and Brice Ezell, student at George Fox University discuss the relationship between the diverse views of young people and the realities of inequity today. The panel weighs the need and consequences of this controversial solution to an age-old problem.
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