Affirmative Action Speech
Intro: To start off, I would like to present a quote from Historian, Roger Wilkins. "Blacks have a 375-year history on this continent: 245 involving slavery, 100 involving legalized discrimination, and only 30 involving anything else." This quote makes you think, That's a rough history to go through. The next thing that comes to your mind should be, well have things gotten better? And the answer is yes and no. Yes, we have come a long way, and No, there are still many things wrong. Affirmative Action is unfortunately abused but not using this law effectively outweighs the abuse in America. To prove our argument, we have 2 types of evidence to present to you. One is outrageous statistics and the other actual cases to back up those statistics. Case 1: First of all, this statistic comes from an article in the Washington Post. Of the 91,183 discrimination complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis
Doesn't this tell you something? That yeah Affirmative Action may be abused in isolated situations, but overall, these statistics don't lie in showing that there is an overwhelming amount of Minorities which includes women that are still being Discriminated against. Now how is that, if Two-thirds of the overall population and 57% of the nations workforce is female or a minority or both. Case 3: Thirdly, The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is one of the government's most important engines of affirmative action.
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