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Writer's note: Originally posted in Mint Press News on October 16, 2012. In light of the Supreme Court’s recent case regarding affirmative action, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, it is important to properly contextualize the original impetus for the policy and the contemporary factors that still make it a very real, present need. The term “affirmative action” was first introduced by President Kennedy in 1961 as a method of redressing discrimination that had persisted

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