Analysis Of Affirmative Action: Opportunit Reverse Discrimination

Affirmative action began as an executive order signed by President Kennedy during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The Civil Rights Act was later expanded on to include women and signed into law by President Johnson. It is defined as an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. Affirmative action was created to break down barriers and level the playing field, and to ” proceed on the common sense notion if equal opportunity were a reality, African Americans, women, people with disabilities and other groups facing discrimination would be fairly represented in the nation’s work force and educational institution” (The Leadership Conference, 2016). To answer the question if affirmative action has achieved its goal, my opinion is mixed because discrimination against minorities and women still exists. In relation to employment, I believe affirmative action has indeed minimized discrimination and has provided the opportunity for African Americans, women, the disabled, and other groups to be represented in the workforce through equal …show more content…
The argument commonly stated in reverse discrimination is the claim that affirmative action takes away from the majority regardless of qualifications. For example; a feeling of injustice of a qualified white male being passed over for a promotion that was given to a less qualified person because they were woman/minority, or the same feeling of inequality when a white female with a 4.0 average, high SAT scores and president of the student council was not accepted to Yale but a Hispanic male with a 3.0 average, average SAT scores and no electives or clubs was. Further claiming that active discrimination over another is unacceptable and a dangerous double