Pros And Cons Of Affirmative Action

Affirmative action is necessary because everyone deserves to go to college regardless of racial background. It is also important to have affirmative action because it promotes diversity in schools. In March of 2008, ACLU stated that they were in for approval of affirmative action. “These programs recognize and strive to correct the barriers that continue to block the paths of many individual Americans, including women, Native Americans, Arab Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and African Americans. Affirmative action helps ensure equal access to opportunities and brings our nation close to the ideal of giving everyone a fair chance. We support and other race-and-gender-conscious-policies as vital tools in the struggle to provide all Americans with equal opportunity, to promote diversity in …show more content…
‘’ programs that leap-frog less qualified minorities over more-qualified non-minorities sweep those systemic problems under the carpet. As such, race-based programs perpetuate fraud upon the very groups they are designed to help.” There’s also more to the disadvantages of affirmative action such as how Dana White has stated in her 2003 article titled “Who says I’m inferior?” “Thirty years ago, affirmative action may have been a necessary step to open the doors of American universities and companies. It helped correct a history of racial discrimination propagated by whites, but it’s a new day in America...” Other organizations such as NOW have stood up putting affirmative action as a policy. “Affirmative action levels the playing field so people of color and all women have the chance to compete in education and in business… Despite the enormous gains made by the civil rights movements, women and people color still face unfair obstacles in business and