Affirmative defense

Affirmative Action Affirmative Action is a government policy that protects individuals from discrimination in employment and education (White 2004). The Affirmative Action law was a result of the 1960 Civil Rights Movement. Prior to 1960 organizations were known for practicing discrimination based on an individual’s gender, race or ethnicity. The law was established to afford opportunities to minority races by breaking down barriers that prevented them from having equal opportunities in…

During this last semester, I was introduced to diversity in workplace from a different, more in-depth angle which I was familiar with earlier but never really had thought about certain topics; such as discrimination not only based on the color and race but also based on age and gender. This class Understanding and Managing Diversity helped me gained a better understanding of diversity topics and issues. Through this class, I learned that diversity as a whole just does not encompass among other…

The commons themes between the movie, Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee, and the book, The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, are a mix between the differences in races, their similarities, and the hope of them becoming equal. These two, throughout their entirety, keep referencing race and the differences in relations to each other. The difference in the color of a person’s skin does not make them inferior or superior to one another. This division is a product of society’s views and judgments placed…

When observing historical and current societal debates, such as those over gender and racial inequality, debaters often utilize the concepts of equality and sameness as interchangeable. However, each concept conveys two entirely different meanings. The concept of equality indicates that each individual possesses government ordained rights, which connotes equality by law. The concept of sameness promotes the idea that individuals require uniform treatment, regardless of equality. In Elizabeth…

Most people are their religion as a safe haven, a place to turn to when the woes of the world seem very dire and extreme. But, what happens when the places where religions are practice—generally called churches—are plagued with the same issues that are prevalent in every other aspect of society? The issues of racism and managed diversity are no strangers to religious interactions. In the article “Managed Diversity; Race, Place, and an Urban Church”, these concepts are examined in relation to…

cross-cultural influence because it negates the Eurocentric idea that Europeans were completely superior influencers. It breaks the status quo to admit that “superior” whites can be influenced by “inferior” non-whites (Loewen 110-111). Whitewashing history functions to disinterest students of color because they do not learn about their own history. It also functions to lower the ability of white students to think critically about history because they do not learn about non-white perspectives of…

yet distinctive interpretative frameworks of European Americans.” (Schiele, 2005) Realistically, African-American communities do not have the greatest presence of affirmative action. The term affirmative action can be defined as “special considerations for minorities in terms of employment, education, and equal opportunity.” Affirmative action tends to be a conversational topic primarily for African-Americans, but non-oppressed individual would not completely understand because they are…

Racism has been in our society ever since white people were introduced to people who do not look like them, who do not have the same complexion or the same facial structure, and it is still alive today. Racism is one of the most important social issues of our modern world. It has affected millions of people worldwide, and will never be forgotten in our history. “How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a world. And, yes being a problem is a strange experience, - peculiar even for one…

Aristotle once said, “The worst form of inequality, is trying to make unequal things equal.” A major example of this concept of inequality displays itself through humans. Although people may seem similar and equal, each personality and talent differs from one another. Now one might wonder what it would be like if every single person were truly equal. This theme is developed in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, and also in the film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle. Tuttle’s…

Equality Within the comforts of the modernized human civilization that we all experience upon a daily basis, a person can easily forget how privileged they are to be existing in such a time of human equality and take that for-granted. However, times were not always as pleasant as they currently are; different diversities of people were not only shamed for their race, gender or ethnicity, but they were abused for it. In addition to that, abuse of this kind happened less than a hundred years ago…