Calray18

February 2011

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Affirmative action‎. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 04:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

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I was trying to make a constructive edit. The statement made was clearly a biased statement, and the top of Affirmative action‎ indicates weasel words are/have been in use on the page. At the time, I considered editing the statement to make it more reliable but having not read the source material, I was not comfortable in changing the words, so I deleted it and then clicked save forgetting to submit a 'reason' for my edit. I am also a resident anthropologist, so I urge you to please be constructive on Wikipedia as well, even if it means contacting another member/user prior to accusations of vandalism. Thanks.

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Affirmative action

Thanks for your message.

According to Thomas Sowell, who wrote a survey of affirmative action programs around the world, the primary justification for those programs is to make up for past discrimination. Another source says that affirmative action is intended to rectify ongoing discrimination.

If you find another reliable source who brings a different perspective, such as the idea that affirmative action is intended to promote equality, we should include that source as well. In the meantime, though, we have to rely on the sources we have. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 05:56, 23 February 2011 (UTC)