Affirmative Action3
There are many issues in today's society that have two solid sides to them, sides, or positions, that cannot be proven absolutely wrong or right. Issues such as capital punishment, abortion, labor unions, animal rights and the list goes on and on. But one issue of this sort haunts our schools, our industries, and the subject, or core, of the issue has haunted our country for the last century. The subject of race, and the issue of affirmative action. In the case of affirmative action, like other controversial issues, each side is strongly supported and neither side can be proven right or proven wrong. The supporters claim it is the best way to ensure equal opportunity in the schools and in the workplace, while those opposing it claim that it merely takes away opportunity from one race, and unjustly hands it to another. The side of this fine line that will be exploited in the following paragraphs is the side opposing affirmative action. The results of affirmative action are more harmful than helpful because it negatively affects the general public, denies opportunity to the deserving, and is an abuse of law and power by government.First, affirmative action negatively affects the public by setting quotas and standards in f
Also, affirmative action denies opportunities to those who maybe are more deserving then those who are granted positions, or jobs, due to the quotas that the employers or administrators are required to meet. When a university receives over five-thousand applications, and must ensure that the proper percentage of those are meeting the racial standards set by affirmative action, the first thing the school officials do is divide the applications by race, and not by qualification. Once they have established how many applications of which race have been received they must then figure how many of which race they need, then choose the most qualified by the racial groupings, not the group as a whole. The problem that surfaces when choosing the most qualified by racial groupings, rather than the group as a whole, is that even if the least intelligent of the white applications happens to be more intelligent than the best out of the black applications, the white student may not be accepted. Primarily as a result of the universities fear of violating the required standards and quotas established. The same can result in a job situation when resumes are received. The employer may end up hiring and unqualified black individual just to ensure that they are not fined or punished by not meeting certain quotas. This is ideally an unjust advantage for races that are covered under affirmative action. It excludes those who deserve the opportunity, and at the same time protects and includes those individuals that may be undeserving, or not as deserving. Finally, affirmative action is an abuse of power by the government and an unjust law. Once af
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Approximate Word count = 1108
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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