Is Affirmative action fair? 1 Is affirmative action fair? Does affirmative action help America? No, affirmative action was needed in the past, but has spiraled out of proportion and needs to be fixed. (6) Affirmative action is not fair because it promotes discrimination, unfair workspace, and un-equal opportunity.
2 What is affirmative action? Affirmative action today is when any person or business goes out of their way to accept someone into anything because of their skin color, gender, or race to show antidiscrimination. On March 6th, 1961 John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925 which created affirmative action. “The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or …show more content…
However, in the USA 77% of the population are white, so it is logical to assume that 77% of CEO and news positions should be white people, and 16% is not a huge increase (census.gov). Furthermore, as it states in Executive Order 10925 affirmative action was created to stop discrimination “against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin”. Now all affirmative action has done is start discriminating against majorities instead of minorities. Affirmative action was created so no one was discriminated against, not just shifting the discrimination of the minorities to the majority (Elizabeth Slattery).
7 The USA has had slavery for 188 years and segregation for 99 more (USA Today). Affirmative action is only 56 years old, meaning the US has had slavery and segregation more than 5 times longer than affirmative action. If the US removes affirmative action some think the USA may lose 56 years of progress in desegregation. However, the world is a different place than it was 350 years ago. Now slavery is banned by most every country and international treaties ban slavery (Archives.gov). Furthermore, people do not like change. Humanity has already changed for the better so why change back (Pip Coburn
2 What is affirmative action? Affirmative action today is when any person or business goes out of their way to accept someone into anything because of their skin color, gender, or race to show antidiscrimination. On March 6th, 1961 John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925 which created affirmative action. “The contractor will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or …show more content…
However, in the USA 77% of the population are white, so it is logical to assume that 77% of CEO and news positions should be white people, and 16% is not a huge increase (census.gov). Furthermore, as it states in Executive Order 10925 affirmative action was created to stop discrimination “against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin”. Now all affirmative action has done is start discriminating against majorities instead of minorities. Affirmative action was created so no one was discriminated against, not just shifting the discrimination of the minorities to the majority (Elizabeth Slattery).
7 The USA has had slavery for 188 years and segregation for 99 more (USA Today). Affirmative action is only 56 years old, meaning the US has had slavery and segregation more than 5 times longer than affirmative action. If the US removes affirmative action some think the USA may lose 56 years of progress in desegregation. However, the world is a different place than it was 350 years ago. Now slavery is banned by most every country and international treaties ban slavery (Archives.gov). Furthermore, people do not like change. Humanity has already changed for the better so why change back (Pip Coburn