The Case for Affirmative Action

The Republic (2023)
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Abstract

Past injustices such as slavery involved subjugation and oppression of human beings. Subjugation and oppression are not only bad but unjust and they make a life worse pro tanto. What is to be done about such past practices and their consequences in the present?

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Idowu Odeyemi
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