remedy past discrimination. I feel that the affirmative action legislation shows

favoritism toward minorities, which is not based on their own abilities, but by their

nationality or race. I also feel that affirmative action is no longer needs to be

considered in employment, education, and contracting decisions. Women and

minority groups today have the same abilities and talents as white men do, and

they should not be accommodated based on past discrimination of their particular

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s deeply rooted racism and segregation was

widespread and many civil rights activists took charge. The civil rights movement

soon took effect, and with the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affirmative

action was created to help cure past discrimination and end segregation.

harm(Domingo, George). I feel that affirmative action was once a productive

were never hurt at the expense of people who have done them now

the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and have suffered little or no prejudice in terms of

to fill jobs rather than the skills of the worker. I believe that affirmative action is

in the rest of the world, most blacks entering the job market today were born after

turmoil, in the midst of the civil rights movement. At that time, it was a set of

races (Beerbower, Tabatha). Now affirmative action is being questioned and

Discrimination against white males is just as bad as discrimination against

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