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Affirmative Action is any effort taken to expand opportunity for women or racial, ethnic and national origin minorities by using membership in those groups that have been subject to discrimination as a consideration. The Fourteenth Amendment states that no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance

Affirmative Action Plan Affirmative action is a plan to promote the efforts of employers, schools and other organizations to recruit and hire groups that have previously been discriminated against. It is important to note that affirmative action programs do not require employers to hire unqualified people for a job. Equal employment opportunity is used to describe policies that prohibit discrimination of any kind. Affirmative action is a program that analyses the make up of the current workforce

Affirmative Action Blacks and other minority groups have been wrongfully persecuted and punished and have suffered the indignities of discrimination. As Martin Luther King stated so eloquently in his "I Have a Dream" speech, blacks should be judged "…not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Our American culture with its political, legal, and social considerations, is struggling with the idea of white redemption while offering minorities a more fair

Topic: The Importance of Affirmative Action in the College Admissions Process Thesis: In order to resolve underrepresentation of African Americans in higher education, affirmative action is needed to promote diversity, improve students’ critical thinking skills, and increase race-consciousness by utilizing race as a factor in college admissions. University of California Regents v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 98 S. Ct. 2733, 57 L. Ed. 2d 750 (1978). The Reagents of the University of California v. Bakke is

There are various goals to affirmative action. It can depend on the group that has been oppressed or discriminated in the past. President Kennedy introduced this to redress the discrimination that constantly happened due to the civil rights movement. This sought to guarantee the same opportunities that the minority groups were excluded from. This was a temporary measure; its purpose was to level the playing field for any American citizen. With affirmative action’s there were bound to be backlashes

Affirmative action is meant to be an attempt at equality throughout society. It supposedly proposes that each person receives equal opportunities in the classroom as well as the work force. Not only would this apply to minorities but to women as well. Every sector in America would be equal and unprejudiced - or so proponents say. On the other hand, adopting affirmative action would force many employers to replace hard-working employees with those of less qualification simply due to their gender

gender-blind.” Affirmative Action began as a way to stop discrimination, but as new laws have been added to it, it has become reverse discrimination. Everyone has the opportunity to be a great addition to society. It is an immense injustice for people to say that someone of a different race or gender is not capable of achieving the same status in life as a white male. Through this paper, the concepts of affirmative action will be analyzed and discussed. Affirmative Action began in 1965 when President

Affirmative action is necessary to give women and minorities a level playing field. The affirmative action movement began in 1960 with the intention of promoting opportunities for minority groups. How is that in the year 2015 we are still having discussions about women and minorities being discriminated against? While the movement of the 1960’s has brought attention to discrepancy against groups, which has paved the platform for reform and opportunity, there is a break down in the movement if 55

policy called affirmative action to aid the disabilities following from two centuries of brutality and unfairness. The objective of this policy was to defeat the accrued human mutilation triggered by Jim Crow and 350 years of slavery and also to guarantee further advancement toward equality. For an example, African Americans being victimized simply because they are black and for no other reason. This type of bigotry infringes basic norms of fairness. But

Logic Is Affirmative Action Fair? Brian Addis August 23, 2010 Is Affirmative Action Fair? Affirmative action was created to increase the number of people from certain social groups in employment, education, business, government, and other areas (LaNoue, G., 2010). This policy is geared toward women, and minorities such as African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, and disabled people. Generally speaking, Affirmative Action was put into place