A Civil Action

Affirmative action is another issue that should be addressed. Affirmative action was not addressed with the interviewees due to time constraints, but is an issue that was brought up during the past summer in regards to high profile incidents between police officers and minorities. The question was posed by several news outlets that a lot of police departments did not represent the community in which they served. This can pose a problem in regards to the fact that some minority candidates may be…

One thing Obama has done to try and provide a solution for the race issue in America was create a policy known as affirmative action. Affirmative action caters to those who usually face discrimination in relation to education or employment. The policy requires for schools and work places to hire or accept a certain amount of colored people. Connerly believes the policy has backfired and…

class, Thursday, February 18th, we discussed civil rights, social rights, political rights, and slavery. In lieu of recent events and our class discussion on Thursday it is important to discern the difference between…

At the end of the civil rights movement President Lyndon B Johnson began to refocus his goal on the success of everyone despite their race. The former President once said, "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." Over the past fifty years our nation has become as accepting and unbiased as…

completely out of their control? Affirmative action, the favoring of different races, genders, and ethnicities in order to promote equality, has become a “leg up” on the competition for applicants that qualify. Although diversity is important, who is the admissions board to discriminate against a well-suited student, solely based on race? To prevent the favoring of different races, genders, and ethnicities in college admissions, the level…

individuals for public fields such as government positions or admissions for higher educational spots. Affirmative Action, Adverse Aftermath Race and discrimination are just as commonly discussed, debated, and argued in today’s political scene as they were when John F. Kennedy first introduced affirmative action in the late 1960’s to help enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Affirmative action and other programs that consider race and gender to vet candidates seem to be easily implementable…

it’s peak in 1950s and 60s. To fight discrimination, President Kennedy in 1961 signed an executive order creating affirmative action. Affirmative action required businesses and colleges to have a certain amount of minorities in admittance. In the following years since affirmative action, racism has dwindled away, but our society continues to hold on to affirmative action. This system once made to fight racism, has now, in and of itself, created racism to white people and “it” needs to be…

Affirmative action was established in order to put a treaty to help create a society in which all citizens should be all positioned in a fair and an equal status. This action was implemented in the purpose to reduce discrimination to particular individuals or groups that had limited prospects in the past. So, this particular group will no longer experience discrimination in the work force or in educational institutions in regards of their age, race and gender. However, the execution of this…

Affirmative action is a highly controversial topic among many people. For some, affirmative action is seen as a great set of policies that ends discrimination in the workforce and the educational system. For others though, affirmative action seems to worsen the problem it is set out to end. While the diversity and the amount of opportunities that minorities get with affirmative action does increase, reverse discrimination is very apparent. This then causes two sides where one side is reaping the…

Affirmative Action policies have stirred debate about fairness of favoring certain groups over others. The most controversial part of these programs is their use of minimal levels of required minority participation. “Affirmative action policies are those in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups in American society”ncsl. Affirmative Action has left many people out in the cold, it allows people to be chosen by…