Affirmative Action efforts were started in 1964 to end the long history of

overlooking qualified people of color and women from higher education. Affirmative

Action sets standards for a business or office of admissions, so that a white man does not

have the upper-hand over an equally or greater educated minority. The initial way the

government tried to justify Affirmative Action was to develop a human resource

approach: first identifying the problem, which is racism then establishing the solution

(Phillips 67).

The intent of Affirmative Action helps cut down discrimination in the work place

and in schools, despite the fact that some believe that affirmative action is a form of

reverse discrimination. In contrast, the first goal of Affirmative Action was to help

people who were poor or badly educated, elevating them to positions for which they were

not objectively qualified (Buckley 95). Cousens, author of Public Civil Rights Agencies

and Fair Employment indicates that the Affirmative Action techniques have the

advantage of not only persuading employers not to discriminate when hiring or accepting,

in." This might be true in some maybe all cases, but in this very true rebuttal to

Buckley, William F., Jr. "The Two Sides." National Review 14 Oct., 1996: 95

Texas Law School was banned from using race at all in their admitting. Attorney General

Porter, Horace. "Affirmative Action: 1960's Dreams, 1990's Realities." Chronicle of

change the way Affirmative Action is implemented, California is ending it first. This will

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