Austin Mabery
Yollotl Lopez
English 101
February 24, 2015
The Flaws in Good Intentions Affirmative action has been a massively debated controversy for the last several years and will continue to be for many more to come. For those who do not quite know or don’t fully understand what Affirmative Action is, it is best described as Policies in which higher level education and organizations make efforts to improve opportunities for underrepresented minorities. It also takes into account race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin. Not only is affirmative action wrong and unethical in higher level education, but also for job opportunities in the workplace. The term Affirmative Action has an outstanding history of almost …show more content…
John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president January 20, 1961. He came to national prominence after world war II as a naval war hero in the pacific theater. Kennedy was the youngest president to ever be elected at age 43, in the same year he called NASA to land the first man on the moon. Affirmative action was an outcome of the 1960’s civil rights movement. The purpose was to allow equal rights and opportunity for minority groups and woman. It was later when president Lyndon Johnson increased Kennedy 's order to add woman and signed the Civil Rights Act into …show more content…
within the first couple of people we come across a young girl who is half white and half black, with red hair and freckles but because of her skin she is seen to others as black. About half way into the video there is a woman who says she is black and Japanese, “Blasian” she calls herself. She explains how being a different race mixed with black affects how people see her. After the first couple of weeks there was an Affirmative Action article that came out around the school saying they do not belong there and they don 't deserve to be there. Words can hurt people mentally, which in turns to hurting them physically. Affirmative action has taken the credibility from minorities, and like the girl in the video said “I couldn’t hide in my Asian side and pretend like I wasn 't black.” (youtube). In my honest opinion affirmative action was a stepping stone for those who constantly met unfair prejudice but has become an invisible target on the backs of those people, as well as even leaving them with bigger complex of inferiority in those times, and even
Yollotl Lopez
English 101
February 24, 2015
The Flaws in Good Intentions Affirmative action has been a massively debated controversy for the last several years and will continue to be for many more to come. For those who do not quite know or don’t fully understand what Affirmative Action is, it is best described as Policies in which higher level education and organizations make efforts to improve opportunities for underrepresented minorities. It also takes into account race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin. Not only is affirmative action wrong and unethical in higher level education, but also for job opportunities in the workplace. The term Affirmative Action has an outstanding history of almost …show more content…
John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president January 20, 1961. He came to national prominence after world war II as a naval war hero in the pacific theater. Kennedy was the youngest president to ever be elected at age 43, in the same year he called NASA to land the first man on the moon. Affirmative action was an outcome of the 1960’s civil rights movement. The purpose was to allow equal rights and opportunity for minority groups and woman. It was later when president Lyndon Johnson increased Kennedy 's order to add woman and signed the Civil Rights Act into …show more content…
within the first couple of people we come across a young girl who is half white and half black, with red hair and freckles but because of her skin she is seen to others as black. About half way into the video there is a woman who says she is black and Japanese, “Blasian” she calls herself. She explains how being a different race mixed with black affects how people see her. After the first couple of weeks there was an Affirmative Action article that came out around the school saying they do not belong there and they don 't deserve to be there. Words can hurt people mentally, which in turns to hurting them physically. Affirmative action has taken the credibility from minorities, and like the girl in the video said “I couldn’t hide in my Asian side and pretend like I wasn 't black.” (youtube). In my honest opinion affirmative action was a stepping stone for those who constantly met unfair prejudice but has become an invisible target on the backs of those people, as well as even leaving them with bigger complex of inferiority in those times, and even