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Affirmative Action - Term Papers

Affirmative Action

is wrong and will not help solve the problems minorities face. The reason it is wrong is because it's discrimination. Although has no place in today's society in today's society because it does more bad than good, it can actually be discrimanatory to an emplyees heath. In addition to that most people don't enjoy the presence of .
First of all, is discrimination, there is no hiding it. When an employer hires anyone because he or she is a minority, even if someone else if more qualified to do the job, it is discrimination. Just because it is reverse discrimination, when whites are discriminated against and minorities are being discriminated for, doesn't make it right. Fred Steele ...

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and continue to grow until we history repeats itself and we end up living underold laws again. That is an extreme possibility to end up under discrimatory old laws again, but it is a definite possibility to end up somewhere close to live up to these laws again.
In addition to that, people say is ok because it cures past discrimination (Keyes 1996). George DeWit spoke of this on the topic and said "Discrimination wasn't ok when blacks were the ones getting the short end of the stick. Therefore it's not ok when whites are discriminated against."(1997) Two wrongs don't make a right. Therefore, doesn't make discrimination ok just because it's against blacks instead of whites.
Tom Buchanan once said " in college is the most discriminating thing this country has ever seen since the old laws many years ago."(1996) At ivy league colleges the median GPA of applicants is close to 4.0 and S.A.T.'s are close to 1300, minorities are let in with GPA's less than 3.0 and S.A.T.'s less ...

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Added: 2/24/2007 10:26:05 AM
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