Kye, Together as One

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/world/americas/brazil-enacts-affirmative-action-law-for-universities.html?_r=1

News in Brazil: facing years of racial inequality against its overwhelming numbers of citizens with African descent, Brazil passes a law that requires many universities to accept half of their members from this demographic.  Yay!  Brazil gets affirmative action, as compared to America.  There hope is to offset some of the institutionalized inequality and give their more impoverished peoples a chance to rise up and be bigger economic players.
Many in the country are against this, feeling that not only will sending these poor people to college won't solve their problems, but will make the education system as a whole worse for having to share.
The law is based on the percentage of black people in the area, so the result would be to statiscally balance the number of white and non-white students.  The government is working together in favor of this, though those who are rich seem to be against it.  The government also ensures that the rich won't be excluded by the acceptance of the African poor.  It seems to be a plan where everyone wins.
Posted by: Kye Manuel Holston