Affirmative Action: Reverse Discrimination
Affirmative action was developed in the mid 1960's to offer equal opportunity employment and education to women and minorities. These policies required that active measures be taken so that minorities had the same opportunities in career advancements and education that were nearly exclusive to whites (Brunner 1). In 2002, affirmative action is still present in our society. Minorities as well as females are given jobs and admissions into colleges and universities that are not totally based on hard they have worked, but rather on their race and gender. Because affirmative action is an unjust law that offers minorities education or employment based on race or gender and not merit, this promotional practice is a form of reverse discrimination that should be abolished.Focusing on jobs and education in particular, affirmative action policies required the active measures be taken to ensure that females, blacks, and other minorities enjoyed the same opportunities that had been available only to whites males. This practice slowly turned into a blatant form of reverse discrimination. Institutions are so anxious to raise the number of blacks in their ranks that they overl
In conclusion, affirmative action was developed over 30 years to promote the civil rights of other and a color-blind society whereas race is not a factor in job placement or education. Our society has come a long way since the 1960's and affirmative action is no longer a process that is needed. It has only become an unjust law to society. Affirmative action offers minorities education or employment based on race or gender and not merit, this promotional practice is a blatant form of reverse discrimination that has caused an inconvenience in today's society and should be abolished. Affirmative action has also led to other inconveniences in the work place and on college campuses. As stated in the article "Race and Rage" by Howard Fineman in the April 5, 1995 issue of Newsweek, 25- year old widow Janice Camarena, a commuting student at San Bernardino Valley College, wanted to attend English 101 at an appropriate hour. For the single mother of three, the only convenient hour was 11 a.m. The only problem was she is white and the 11 a.m. section of classes was designated for African- Americans. Bearing a neutral label, the class was actually part of a "Black Bridge"
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