Arguments Against Affirmative Action

Affirmative action affects many people. It doesn’t affect only certain races but all races. Many of the federal government workers, including military personnel, are directly affected by the laws of affirmative action. So are thousands of companies, employing between 20 and 25 percent of the nation's labor force. Affirmative action policies also affect the nearly 16 million students attending U.S. institutions of college. Affirmative action policies command attention because they tap into basic debates about fairness. As a nation, we say we are committed to fairness, but our history of achieving fairness for all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity or gender, has been far from perfect. Any policy that reminds us of the difference between

The policy for “Affirmative Action was introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson as method of redressing the discrimination that had persisted in spite of civil rights laws and constitutional clauses. Affirmative Action has been defined as “Public or private actions or programs that provide opportunities or other benefits to persons on the basis of, among other things, their membership in a specified group. Affirmative Action began in the 1960s with what people called an attempt to sweet talk the minorities. Our 35th and 36th president wanted to assist the minorities in realizing equal employment opportunities. State and Local government soon adopted the effort as well as private businesses. Still later, the federal government added affirmative action requirements to federal funding for educational institutions such as colleges and universities. Today, affirmative action has become the one of the most controversial issues in the United States of America. Americans believe that fairness involves treating everyone the same and, together, we should do everything thing possible to overcome past discrimination and provide equal

For example, although most students study how African American (Black People) came to the United States as slaves, not everyone is aware that as late as the late 1850s, the Supreme Court declared that no black person could claim their citizenship. Also when the Civil War ended slavery, the government still held African Americans in a different status much like the caste system in India. One famous Court case is the Plessy vs. Ferguson Case. The Court decided that there will be “separate but equal” facilities for black and whites and implicitly sanctioning continued segregation in schools, transportation, the armed services, and public accommodations. I believe the word not was left out of this phrase. The Supreme Court of the United States said “separate but equal” but the citizens heard separate but not equal. Women, also, can benefit from the Affirmative Action plan. As a matter of fact, all women were denied to vote until