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Affirmative Action - Term Papers

Affirmative Action

was started to eliminate discrimination in the
workplace by hiring workers on a nondiscriminatory basis. It began in 1961 by
president Kennedy when he issued executive order number 10925 to make federal
contractors take (Altschiller, p.5). The goal of affirmative
action is to allow "the victims of discriminatory conduct to the position they
would have occupied in the absence of that conduct" Rehnquist said. Should such
policies be legal and deemed as good or looked down upon as a failed attempt to
solve our racial problems? Affirmative action does not eliminate discrimination
if anything it makes it more of an issue.
Although the concept of affirmative action is good, the result of ...

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they don't allow it. For example in a supreme
court decision, it was allowed for a Michigan school district to layoff non-
minority teachers in order to hire minority teachers with less
experience(Altschiller, p13). If a similar case were to appear again the result
would most likely be different.
In no case should the person who is less qualified be hired. It also
doesn't make much sense to try to do away with a racial problem by using race as
the important factor. When it's looked at from the logical point of view most
people do see it as a bad thing. Like when the question "Because of past
discrimination, should qualified blacks receive preference over equally
qualified whites in such matters as getting jobs or into colleges or not?" Fifty
percent of blacks said they should not. While when the question of whether or
not affirmative action is a plus or minus consistently blacks, other minorities,
and whites see it as a good thing. These two statistics oppose each ...

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Added: 6/11/2006 12:46:57 AM
Category: Government
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