affirmative action
Every person in this room has more than likely taken the SAT whether it was a year ago or many, many years ago. This test is basically used to determine who will succeed in college and who won't. Sounds simple right? Because each person takes a variation of the same test, the scores can help separate students with almost equal credentials. So you would figure that if you were competing with someone for acceptance to a college and you received a 1300 and the other person, with equal qualifications, received a 1200, you would be chosen, right? Well, maybe not. If you were a white male and the other person was a black female, it is quite possible and even likely that she would take the spot. This is what is known as affirmative action.Today I will share with you the principles of affirmative action, its origin in our country, and the criticisms and praises that it has received. The idea of affirmative action is to fix the results of centuries of discrimination against minorities in the United States. For years, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, women and all other non-white male groups had been persecuted in this country. They had been denied education, denied full rights as citizens, denied jobs, denied the life that the Constitutio
I hope I gave you some insight on this and taught you all a little something. corrected by the performing the same injustices today against white males. It boils down to the "two wrongs don't make a right" principle. Another chief complaint is that unqualified people are taking the jobs of qualified ones. This originates from the belief that, rather than an employer choosing the minority between two equal candidates; the employer looks past obvious deficiencies in the minority and, to satisfy the government, still chooses him or her. The last, and most devastating effect of affirmative action, according to opponents, is that jobs will be taken away from white workers. They believe that enormous amounts of whites are losing out on work that should go to them, to minorities. The basic argument for affirmative action is that discrimination is now over, it's all in the past, and we never contributed to it, so why should any other group suffer now? Advocates of affirmative action do not accept this at all. They liken the situation to a 100-yard sprint! acked for the last 200 years to make everything equal in reality. As with all controversial issues, there will never be a perfect solution to this problem. Whether affirmative action is necessary depends on whether discrimination still exists. And due to the diversity of this country, we most likely will never completely agree on that answer. For now the best we can do is continue the dream of Martin Luther King, who soug
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