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Essay on The Process of Discrimination: Affirmative Action

Politics is assuming command of the American economy in the form of pervasive "equal opportunity" enforcement. In today's society, everyone is supposed to be equal and have equal rights, but in employment, there is more discrimination than ever. American citizens need to do away with affirmative action so that America's job opportunities can once again be based on merit, not skin color or ethnicity. Laws have been passed, quotas have been established, and seemingly, everything has been done to prevent discrimination, but rather than ending discrimination, these new laws and quotas have begun to discriminate against a new group of people-the qualified white male. America is known as the land of opportunity. The general theory is that if you work hard enough and you are the most qualified person to receive a job, you get it, but that is no longer the case. Now, in order to be employed, qualifications do not always matter as much as the color of a person's skin or his ethnicity.

In dealing with this subject, the first question that is always asked is, "What is wrong with quotas? What is wrong with companies hiring a variety of blacks, Hispanics, women, and white males?" The problem is not with hiring a variety of people from different ethnic groups. The problem begins when the person who is best qualified for a job, loses the position to someone less qualified. More and more, white males are having problems finding jobs because they are not black or Hispanic or do not have breasts. Affirmative action, which is action in the form of quotas and special treatment for "protected classes", has resulted in a politicized hiring process in which white males are openly discriminated against. A 1984 poll found that one in every ten white males lost a promotion because of quotas. They have become invisible victims because the idea of merit hiring has been subverted by politicized hiring, and that has left the white males no way to defend themselves against this open discrimination. Some have tried to defend themselves, but litigation proved expensive, exhausting, chancy, and immensely time consuming. One case remains unsettled after more than six years in litigation.

Many voices say that quotas are used to right the past wrongs when so many minority groups were discriminated against, but even immigrants, if they belong to one of the protected classes are eligible for quota preferences. Leslie Spencer and

Quotes talked about in this paper

  • Xerox, a company that uses quotas, states, "We have a process that we call 'balanced work force'. In Xerox, everyone understands that, and it is measurable by its goals and relative numbers. That is the hard business, that is what people do not like to deal with, but we do it all the time."
  • Kmart executive told a researcher, "We're not letting you anywhere near our program."
  • Peter Lynch, a sociological researcher, states "White males have been easily and silently victimized one by one."

Terminology referenced in this research paper
Gross National Product,

Names talked about in this essay
Clarence Harmon, Martin Luther King, Karl Marx, Peter Brimelow, Leslie Spencer, Peter Lynch, Representative Don Edwards,

Organizations included in this research material
Supreme Court, Black Police, New York Times,

Locations mentioned in this paper
America, California,

Companies talked about in this research material
a company, Kmart,

Keywords mentioned in this research material
affirmative action, white males, 1991 civil rights act, civil rights, skin color, Supreme Court, equal opportunity, qualified person, equal employment, Gross National Product, Martin Luther King, America, Clarence Harmon, job market, new laws, discriminated, Another way, prima facie, politicized, American citizens, indirect cost, opportunity cost, another step, Peter Brimelow, minority groups, Karl Marx, Police Chief, male psychology, Court decision, Peter Lynch, political power, common sense, special treatment, Don Edwards, class consciousness, ethnicity, police academy, real men, public schools, hurting, mass media, Sears, hispanic, Xerox, oppression, New York, sociological, preferences, harmful, researcher,

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