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Pros And Cons Of Affirmative Action

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Affirmative action is an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities among the minority groups, and woman in addition to promote the rights of the others who have the disadvantage. In 1964, Affirmative action arose as the way to fix racial discrimination and promote the rights that were established in the Civil Right Acts by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, to prohibit public discrimination, however the movement was lead by the International figure Martin Luther King Jr. Ultimately, I strongly disagree with Robert Staples for believing that the policy of affirmative action should continue. Affirmative Action isn’t necessary to achieve racial equality in the United States. Everyone is born with the same advantages …show more content…

However African Americans were the main discriminated group and subjected to slavery. Woman also received discrimination but not as much as African Americans but their liberties were taken away from them, thus being the inferior’s or saw as those who had a disadvantage. Two hundred years later at the current time and date, America defines justices as equal treatment of all citizens under the law. Citizens that have been treated unfairly, and unjustly, injustice has been committed against. By all means it is the duty of America to see such injustice activities eliminated. In today’s society, it is important that every citizen regardless of race, religion, and sex is treated equally and given equal opportunity in acquiring an adequate job and the Admission offices for post secondary Education. Affirmative Action actually does the opposite; it gives the better hand to the minority while making it unfair for those who are not the minority. For example Affirmative action policies lower standards and make students less accountable. If standards for test scores, grade point average, etc. are lowered for …show more content…

He has contributed at least one hundred articles and reviews to sociology journals and various magazines. Also Robert Staples believe that Affirmative action is needed to balance the playing fields between the minorities and the privileged. Robert states that many of the middles class members that are the minorities are there not because they have what it takes but rather meet the quota needed to make the fields feel diversified and equal. When Richard M. Nixon expended the Affirmative action he personally believed that blacks were intellectually inferior to other groups, so he extended it on behave of John F. Kennedy. How ever Affirmative action has existed at least as a symbol of this nations integrity and commitment to civil rights. Regardless of the current Law of Justices prejudice will forever continue to run through those who still have a way of thinking like the past. Affirmative action has differentiated the labor force, the government has mandated hiring a certain amount of minorities to integrate their work force, and over the past thirty years the integration has advanced both socially and economically for the interest group. Yet there is no

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