Affirmative action was created in the 1960s in order to give the groups that had been marginalized for years a leg up in order to help them out. The mentality behind its creation is best summarized in a quote from a speech given by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 in which he says, "you do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair." This made complete sense back in 1965 where minorities had been discriminated against for years.
Today it's much a much more divisive issue as the disparity between the people of this country has become less and less an issue of race. The lessening of inequality between race has caused many to question whether or not affirmative action programs are …show more content…
By gaining the broader and more diverse view of the world, these people now have a wider range of knowledge and experience to make them more empathetic and able to understand people who aren’t similar to themselves.
Another argument to keep the laws on affirmative action as they are is that those who are admitted into the program do better in life, after having gone to better schools, than those who went to less rigorous schools even with similar SAT scores and qualifications, as is explained in an article by Richard O. Lampert of the New York Times.
The article mentioned above goes on to explain that people who have similar qualifications going out of high school, but are admitted into more rigorous schools are usually more successful in life and go on to have higher paying jobs. The article also explains how mismatched minority students also have a similar graduation rate and post school job satisfaction as their white
Today it's much a much more divisive issue as the disparity between the people of this country has become less and less an issue of race. The lessening of inequality between race has caused many to question whether or not affirmative action programs are …show more content…
By gaining the broader and more diverse view of the world, these people now have a wider range of knowledge and experience to make them more empathetic and able to understand people who aren’t similar to themselves.
Another argument to keep the laws on affirmative action as they are is that those who are admitted into the program do better in life, after having gone to better schools, than those who went to less rigorous schools even with similar SAT scores and qualifications, as is explained in an article by Richard O. Lampert of the New York Times.
The article mentioned above goes on to explain that people who have similar qualifications going out of high school, but are admitted into more rigorous schools are usually more successful in life and go on to have higher paying jobs. The article also explains how mismatched minority students also have a similar graduation rate and post school job satisfaction as their white