Affirmative Action and its Effects
Date Submitted: 08/26/2002 15:18:16
Affirmative Action and its Effects
The roots of affirmative action can be traced back to the
passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act where legislation redefined
public and private behavior. The act states that to discriminate in
private is legal, but anything regarding business or public
discrimination is illegal ("Affirmative" 13). There are two instances
when opposing affirmative action might seem the wrong thing to do.
Even these two cases don't justify the use of affirmative action.
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Affirmative action has balanced for thirty years on a moral
threat. It is now time to apply new moral threats, not towards the
employers and colleges but towards the government. For it is the
government that needs to change its polices. The government needs to
take action towards the real problems of equality: poverty, not the
bad white man from the past. Affirmative action is simply the same
old discrimination in reverse.
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