A Civil Action

Affirmative action is a set of policies that often makes employment decisions a way to preventing further discrimination. A negative policy, this prevents further discrimination by making initial employment decisions blind in terms of race and gender. There are four main reasons that people and companies wish to preserve affirmative action programs. One is that these programs distribute society’s benefits and burdens; jobs are not distributed justly because they are not distributed according to…

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS RACE BASED PREFERENCE One of the most controversial topics in higher education concerns affirmative action. It has been a subject of endless debates among those who are pro affirmative action or against it. Citing the positive and negative effects of this policy. But what is affirmative action? The term affirmative action means ensuring opportunities and access in areas of education and employment to minority groups and or disadvantaged race. This term was first…

Should affirmative action be allowed in schools? Or does the very idea undermine equality? The case of affirmative action has confronted the Supreme Court in 2008 by a white woman, Abigail Fisher, who believed she was denied acceptance to the University of Texas at Austin because of her skin color. The Court eventually refused to make a major ruling, but instead sent the case back to the lower courts for future analysis and for a future ruling. As for now, affirmative action still exists, but…

Affirmative action policies are policies in which an institution or organization actively engages in multiple efforts to improve opportunities for historically marginalized and excluded groups in America (Pojman, 1998). These policies focus on both employment and education. In institutions of higher education, affirmative action refers to admission and recruitment policies that provide equal and equitable access to education for those groups that have been excluded or underrepresented, such as…

information. This means that those with records will have the same chance as any other applicant. A state ban the box law is on its way. Nearly 200 worker advocacy groups and labor unions recently sent a letter to President Obama urging executive action for the removal of the box on job application all over the country (CITE?). One of the nation’s largest retailers Wal-Mart adopted a personal company policy to ban the box in…

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…

redress historical discriminations, affirmative action has, inherently, built reverse discrimination against Asian and white males. Due to a limited number of accepted applicants in high-level institutions, the preference that affirmative action gives to minorities have had dramatic effects in the acceptance rates based on race, with the Asians and whites face much harder competition amongst themselves. Consequently, as Ron Unz points out, affirmative action serves as quotas on Asian…

I am writing to you to address a majorly controversial topic, Affirmative Action. I would like to ask you the question, do we all have equal opportunities? The answer is too often no from minority students. Affirmative Action is a popular debate that has to do with colleges and workplaces letting in more women and minorities. I am going to argue that Affirmative Action should stay legal and should be allowed in more cities and companies. It gives everyone an opportunity at a higher education and…

Supreme Court of the U.S decided to invite reconsideration of affirmative action, the need for schools integration and the ability of education to bring social change. The author is trying to prove that although the Supreme Court of the U.S had all grounds to the belief that these were the major issues affecting the…

Affirmative action policies aim to ensure equal educational and employment opportunities for minorities and women. They intend to benefit people who had previously suffered from discrimination, such as African Americans, by placing requirements, or quotas, on percentages of races that must be hired or accepted (LaNoue). Employers and schools must consider race or gender when hiring to make sure that both genders and all races have equal opportunities (Hanmer). However, this system is surrounded…