Monday, May 4, 2009

My Intro Speech

This doesnt have to be a final call or anything...just let me know what you all think :D

Good evening students, my name is Alex McFarr. Id like to begin to address our problem with a quote from the late Martin Luther King Jr, which goes :
“the best way to solve ANY problem is to REMOVE its cause” (stride towards freedom 1964)

My fellow group will now be handing out a college application to The Mike Sperla School of Communication, a school which is nationally honored as a top tier university.
Imagine yourself in the midst of your final fall semester at miracosta, you’ve been inundated with midterms, reports, and papers but still you must complete rigorous applications in order to transfer.
What Id like you all to do is answer honestly and put your pencils down when you have finished.
Now it seems that the results are in!
So turn over your application and find out whether you have been accepted or…. Rejected.

Quick, someone shout out how they felt after hearing back from the Admissions Office?

What you have all experienced is what it feels like to become the byproduct of a law which aims to promote equality….but in its reverse discrimination, fails to.
With the racial preferences that tag along with affirmative action how can we all be equal?

Tonight, we will discuss the once good-natured history of Affirmative Action.
the recent to present fallibility in quotas and attempts at university diversification, and a solution that everyone in here can put an effort into “mending, not ending” the affirmative action that we live with, not our forefathers and foremothers.

Throughout the course of several weeks, each of us has scourged the interweb for information on affirmative action: everything from the underlying foundations to the President Obama’s take. Through various articles, court cases, school studies, national and state statistics, and expert testimonies, we have picked each apart piece by piece for only the most pertinent information. Information that applies to us specifically: college students.
While we are quite confident in our knowledge of affirmative action and seek for you to decide for yourself on the topic, keep in mind that none of us claim to be professional experts.

Let me start off by saying affirmative action is a bit outdated. The problem lies within the lack of updating such an old law. Despite our country growing more diverse, and racially integrated every year, we must still live with certain prehistoric laws that do not have as profound effect on the nation as they once had.

The reason that affirmative action still carries the stigma of racial preferences and quotas in the college system is due largely in part to the lack of K-12 education reformation. Ironically, to quote one of the founding fathers of Affirmative Action, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair, “this was stated in a commencement speech at Howard University, a top black institution in To Fulfill These Rights

By simultaneously cutting the funding of programs specifically designed for minorities, programs which are available because of affirmative action, and spending that money on reforming K-12 education in low-income communities, we believe that schools and universities will find that more minorities are taking the required classes to qualify for state universities as well as cultivate a diverse group of leaders without placing preference on one race over another. We would also plan to gather enough signatures to have a bill introduced in Congress that nationally outlaws State schools and universities from requesting the race of a student on a college application.

Now Id like to hand the reigns over to Chris, the sixth member of the A Kickers.
Bear in mind that Chris has a notorious reputation for his comedic antics and is infamous for making a scene by using offensive language and views. Please do not be offended, he is really passionate about affirmative action:

2 comments:

  1. haha this is great! I love how you are introducing the video! ahhh Im so nervous though but if we start it out like this it wont matter how horribly i mess it all up (This is Emily by the way)

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