Affirmative Action: Pros and Cons
As for the racial inequalities, it is worth mentioning that it was the matter of great concern for the black population; despite the fact they deserved to have same human rights, it still appeared impossible goal for this category of people that the dominating whites considered as inferior to them. The race issue could be solved in case the government were interested in settling on a solution to it. All in all, white people were not intended to acknowledge the human rights of black citizens. All this has lead to bloody massacres, discrimination, and humiliation of the black population. It is clear that the unwillingness of the white population to accept the rights of the blacks has resulted in horrible outcome in
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The thing is that they did not want to alter the social system, since the concept of racial disparity was a part of their mentality. However, the time has brought long-awaited changes to American social order. Affirmative action appeared to be effective in terms of holding the respective institutions that are in charge of any declaration of discrimination. Moreover, not only white people are actively hired, which means that the barrier of the blacks is removed (Fullinwider, 2010). On the other hand, from the perspective of social contemplation, affirmative action was believed to avoid collisions between minorities and the rest of the population. As a result, the suggestion that affirmative action had many downsides emerged in the public mind. In view of many scholars, the major drawback of the affirmative action is that white people could turn to be a minority. Furthermore, affirmative action is seen as discrimination of the minorities due to its nature to discriminate either blacks or whites and search for the favor for only one