Valerie Dixon, a guest columnist, published in The Gleaner an article on Sunday August 17, 2014 Titled: ‘Garveyism more relevant today’. The article was quite uplifting and informative, as the author highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of affirmative action, and expressed the relevance of Garveyism, and her view of how much Garveyism is needed in our society today. Knowing that affirmative action has its advantages and disadvantages, one would have to agree with the author on the point that, “the granting of affirmative action was one of the best and worst things that has ever happened to the black race in the diaspora”.
I agreed with Dixon’s point that, affirmative action, was the best policy to attempt to get rid of discrimination,