Affirmative Action
Every year thousands of students apply for higher education at colleges and universities but are turned away because of race, gender, or background. They may be perfectly qualified in both academics and involvement in their community, but they are declined the position because the educational facility, who decides whom to accept and whom to decline, don’t practice accepting people with more diverse backgrounds. The prejudice and discrimination in the views of these schools get in the way of objectively observing the attributes of others. This discrimination also occurs in the workforce with white collared jobs like managing positions, financial advisors, and secretary jobs. Many prospective employees are turned away from …show more content…
Those people were exploited by the higher groups in their society, normally through extremely low pay and horrible living conditions, and every culture has them. Finally, after hundred and hundreds of years of this unfair treatment of people, the idea behind affirmative action was formed. The first act of affirmative action--before it was called affirmative action-in the United States was the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 (Allen 19). The Emancipation Proclamation was declared by Abraham Lincoln, and its purpose was to free the slaves who were in captivity during the American Civil War. Most of these slaves were African Americans brought over to the United States and clapped in irons by slavers. Some slaves were treated well, but most of them were treated so inhumanely that they didn’t survive very long. Abraham Lincoln saw the horrible acts being done to these people, and he decided to use the Civil War as a means to abolish slavery. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not directly address the issues affirmative action addresses, it was the first step in a long path to the idea of
Every year thousands of students apply for higher education at colleges and universities but are turned away because of race, gender, or background. They may be perfectly qualified in both academics and involvement in their community, but they are declined the position because the educational facility, who decides whom to accept and whom to decline, don’t practice accepting people with more diverse backgrounds. The prejudice and discrimination in the views of these schools get in the way of objectively observing the attributes of others. This discrimination also occurs in the workforce with white collared jobs like managing positions, financial advisors, and secretary jobs. Many prospective employees are turned away from …show more content…
Those people were exploited by the higher groups in their society, normally through extremely low pay and horrible living conditions, and every culture has them. Finally, after hundred and hundreds of years of this unfair treatment of people, the idea behind affirmative action was formed. The first act of affirmative action--before it was called affirmative action-in the United States was the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 (Allen 19). The Emancipation Proclamation was declared by Abraham Lincoln, and its purpose was to free the slaves who were in captivity during the American Civil War. Most of these slaves were African Americans brought over to the United States and clapped in irons by slavers. Some slaves were treated well, but most of them were treated so inhumanely that they didn’t survive very long. Abraham Lincoln saw the horrible acts being done to these people, and he decided to use the Civil War as a means to abolish slavery. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not directly address the issues affirmative action addresses, it was the first step in a long path to the idea of