Ira Katznelson's When Is Affirmative Action Fair?

The process of learning about my topic, affirmative action as well as the dialogue made the learning process a lot more dynamic because all of the different voices within the dialogue itself. In respect to the content, affirmative action is one of those buzzwords that is thrown around in the news but it’s not something I truly knew about. I just knew the basics about the topic and having this discussion has helped me unpack the topic a great deal. I understood affirmative action in the strokes of education specifically with college admissions. Using Ira Katznelson’s When is Affirmative Action Fair? On Grievous Harms and Public Remedies helped alot with the required background information to understand why affirmative action was needed and where it came from. Seeing the actual …show more content…
When she tried to make the space more inclusive and put her opinion out there, she was completely shut down and was not asked to return to the committee the following year. I think the act that these people didn’t invite her back next year, proved her original point. When white people are faced with something or someone that tries to take away their frame or makes it more difficult to use, it automatically becomes a hostile environment. The people of color immediately becomes alienated from the space and is promptly kicked out of the space for someone who is more like-minded to the dominant group in the space. We ended up having a very conversation about this idea. I was very pleased with it, it became a space where we could quickly discuss the harmfulness of a system like this. A person of color could either speak out against this colorblindness and face alienation in the workplace or comply with the colorblindness and be forced to feel suppressed. Which isn’t a fair choice for anyone to