Affirmative action is an action that benefits those who are discriminated against whether it is at work or school. It was implemented to be a positive factor for minorities, but stirred up great debate all the way to the supreme courts. The Chronicle of Higher Education newsletter exposed U.S. state legislation being against affirmative action policies. “If an applicant to a state college or university presents the academic qualifications for admission, that’s all there should be to it”. (Schmidt, P. 2014). This is the belief of many people and is why affirmative action was banned in a 6-2 vote in the states of Florida, California, Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. The Supreme Court is also determined into passing the banning law everywhere else because it isn’t fair to white males and is an insult to think …show more content…
Ward Connerly is known as the president of the American Civil Rights Institute along with other organizations says, “Had the decision gone the other way, then all our initiatives would have been in jeopardy, present and future.
Switching to a matter of “managing diversity”. This deals with equal employment for minorities and women at least this is how managers view it, because it does not include the white males. But white males have a bigger advantage of higher levels in jobs than minorities and women. So a way to make it fair to each party would be a dominant heterogeneous culture. A dominant heterogeneous culture is . Dominant heterogeneous culture to me means . And if R. Roosevelt Thomas would have gotten his wish and affirmative action was accepted I believe it would be beneficial and abused at the same time. I work