Affirmative action an attempt to create equality throughout society. The goal is that each person receives equal opportunities in the classroom as well as the work force. Not only would these oppurtunities apply to minorities but to women as well. All school admissions and all hiring for jobs would be equal and unprejudiced, or so the advocates say. The reality is that adopting affirmative action would force many employers to replace hard working employees with those of less qualification and experience because of their gender or ethnicity.

Many people feel that affirmative action would be very beneficial to our society. They do have many good arguments. Some claim that we owe blacks for what we took from them in the past. We set them back in our economic system during the 18th and 19th century, and affirmative action would be our way of

In the same way, women's wages increased 119 percent from 1979 to1982. There still remains the question: how much longer should we attempt to right our wrongs? If minorities make up sixty percent of today's work force, will we keep going until it becomes eighty percent, or ninety? Most likely not. It appears that affirmative action has fulfilled its purpose and has now outlasted its usefulness and should be destroyed. Finding jobs for minorities and women was a step in the right direction, but affirmative action was a poor way to do it. Even the Supreme Court, on July 12, 1995, criticized affirmative action saying it was not morally justifiable and could amount to unconstitutional reverse discrimination and harm for those it was seeking to advance.

of minorities and women. In 1995, sixty percent of the work force was made up of

Basing whether a person receives a job on their race seems a lot like discrimination. It is also discrimination to take jobs and opportunities from white males, who happen to be the majority. It is referred to as reverse discrimination, and while followers of affirmative action say it does not exist, it obviously does. To give a percentage of jobs to the minority, the majority will have to give a percentage of their jobs up. It is generally accepted that discrimination is wrong, and that should include biases against the majority. Not just the minorities.

our country, but also it also changes our economic status. By replacing well-qualified

We spend so much time trying to find equality and unity between whites and those

minorities and women. That was an increase from the 1979 estimate of forty percent.

But what can you do to stop affirmative action now? Write letters, sign petitions

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