If there is already a natural tendency whereby Black students have increasing access to attending college, then affirmative action measures are unnecessary.

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Con: Minority students often do not graduate from college, even if they are able to get in to the school.

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Con: While Black students are entering college at higher rates than ever before, they are enrolling in increasingly less selective institutions than white students.

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Pro: Black women are now the most educated group in the United States.

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Pro: College enrollment rates of Black students have increased by 37% in the last two decades.

Should affirmative action be required in college admissions?

If there is already a natural tendency whereby Black students have increasing access to attending college, then affirmative action measures are unnecessary.

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Cons

Black women are now the most educated group in the United States.

College enrollment rates of Black students have increased by 37% in the last two decades.

Minority students often do not graduate from college, even if they are able to get in to the school.

While Black students are entering college at higher rates than ever before, they are enrolling in increasingly less selective institutions than white students.

Selected claim, opposing its parent

If there is already a natural tendency whereby Black students have increasing access to attending college, then affirmative action measures are unnecessary.

Pro claim 1

Black women are now the most educated group in the United States.

Pro claim 2

College enrollment rates of Black students have increased by 37% in the last two decades.

Con claim 1, children below

Minority students often do not graduate from college, even if they are able to get in to the school.

Con claim 2

While Black students are entering college at higher rates than ever before, they are enrolling in increasingly less selective institutions than white students.