Minority Benefits
Aside from the social benefits of racial integration, affirmative action achieves the goal that social leaders invented it for: creating equality for minorities. Although America has come a long way in creating both political and social equality for minorities, subtle disadvantages are still existent for non-white races. Whether this issue can be attributed to racism or pure coincidence is not of question. With this is in mind, the real question is associated with what America can do as a nation to work toward solving the conflict. Affirmative action can be taken to benefit minorities in the way that it creates equal opportunities and representation in society.
As has been noted, affirmative action promotes equal opportunities in education. Professor …show more content…
According to a Pew Research Center study in 2009, 58% of African Americans and 53% of Hispanics favor preferential treatment in hope to enhance minorities’ positions in society. A similar study conducted two years prior by the same research center found that 78% of African Americans and 61% of Hispanics favored affirmative action programs in college education to overcome discrimination. For this reason, affirmative action should take place in college applications. The United States uses a social contract between the government and the people, which, according to American History expert Martin Kelley, is the belief that the state only exists to serve the will of the people. If the strong majority of minorities favor affirmative action and attaining more equal opportunities in today’s society, it is self-evident that they feel disproportionate as non-white citizens. As a result, it is only fair under the beliefs of the United States to offer advantaged opportunity to minorities, who feel that today’s society is utterly
Aside from the social benefits of racial integration, affirmative action achieves the goal that social leaders invented it for: creating equality for minorities. Although America has come a long way in creating both political and social equality for minorities, subtle disadvantages are still existent for non-white races. Whether this issue can be attributed to racism or pure coincidence is not of question. With this is in mind, the real question is associated with what America can do as a nation to work toward solving the conflict. Affirmative action can be taken to benefit minorities in the way that it creates equal opportunities and representation in society.
As has been noted, affirmative action promotes equal opportunities in education. Professor …show more content…
According to a Pew Research Center study in 2009, 58% of African Americans and 53% of Hispanics favor preferential treatment in hope to enhance minorities’ positions in society. A similar study conducted two years prior by the same research center found that 78% of African Americans and 61% of Hispanics favored affirmative action programs in college education to overcome discrimination. For this reason, affirmative action should take place in college applications. The United States uses a social contract between the government and the people, which, according to American History expert Martin Kelley, is the belief that the state only exists to serve the will of the people. If the strong majority of minorities favor affirmative action and attaining more equal opportunities in today’s society, it is self-evident that they feel disproportionate as non-white citizens. As a result, it is only fair under the beliefs of the United States to offer advantaged opportunity to minorities, who feel that today’s society is utterly