Affirmative Action is a very sensitive issue to many people. I understand its initial purpose to help people of minority, women, and those in unfortunate demographic circumstances. Affirmative Action is meant to give people a chance; however, in the process it has turned into a cause of taking the chances from others. Affirmative Action is an outdated system of trying to establish equality on levels of race, gender, and demography. As a country there are many campaigns to eliminate racism. Racism is present because there are racial boundaries that we as a society accept. By using programs-such as Affirmative Action- we are defining races and setting up grounds for racism and elitism. The amount of racism in the United States toward minorities has decrease by a huge margin over the past fifty years. We are now in the 21st century I believe it is time that we break down programs that create racial, gender, and class definitions. To move forward productively as a country we must see one another as more of equals than trying to break down specifications for betterment of opportunity. Everyone needs to be given the same shot at opportunities from the college process to the work place. Initially Affirmative Action was the way to do this, but it is now time to move away from this outdated process. Even black’s have come out against the racial boundaries that get re-built day after day because of the strong historical feelings of blacks and whites. The below quotation from Bill Cosby is a solid campaign to attmpt eliminating racial boundaries