Like “c”, the quality of the students has diminished. Not only that think about the job professions were affirmative action have people that shouldn’t be qualified to take jobs like doctor and engineering and scientist because of affirmative
Critics of affirmative action frequent describe the policy as being unfair, asserting that it contravenes a conserved system of meritocracy in the country by basing selection decisions on demographic characteristics at the expense of ability and achievement (Thernstrom & Thernstrom, 1997). Defenders take a different position that can be explained by two facts: racism and sexism are still present in the United States society and affirmative action is the most efficient and effective way of reducing discrimination than the present alternatives. However, affirmative action increases fusion and fairness in employment and in education because it works as a proactive observing system. As Crosby and Smith (2005) consider, “such policies may help ensure that patterns of bias—including selective system bias— are uncovered and
Affirmative action in the United States I believe that affirmative action negatively affects on both minorities and majorities. From a minority’s perspective, the idea that minorities can receive benefits from others due to their race, ethnicity, or gender can cause them to feel segregated against anyway. Since the term, ‘minority,’ no longer applies to every females or person of color today, female students or students of color with affluent backgrounds may feel segregated and devalued even when they did not get any special benefit from affirmative action policies. Majorities, in this case, male or white students, will also get discouraged because this can be regarded as a form of reverse discrimination, especially with racial affirmative action programs.
In 1995, the number of black college students was less than 5%. By 1990 over 11% of college students were black. This jump in percentage is thanks to the role of affirmative action. According to Casey Quinlan, in her article, “Why We Still Need Affirmative Action Policies in College Admissions”, there are two kinds of affirmative action approaches used in college and university admissions. The soft approach is when colleges and universities use outreach programs to attract a diverse population of students.
“Affirmative Action may not be a perfect system, but there should be no doubt that it has endangered many successes. It has opened the doors of America’s most elite educational institutions to minority students, granting them unprecedented opportunities” (Ogletree 12). Thanks to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson a policy that prohibits employment and education discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, and sex is offered today to those who suffer from said discriminations (A Brief History). Affirmative action has opened abundant openings for minorities, allowing the cycle of going to college to be passed down generations and provided job opportunities that otherwise would not be considered by most. Affirmative
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
A research directed by Professor Douglas S. Massey, Margarita Mooney and Kimberly C. Torres from Princeton University, stated that “41 percent of the "blacks" at the Ivy League colleges were not "American blacks"( Driscoll and Newton 2). Although these “blacks” help increase diversity at the Ivy League colleges, the problems here is that Affirmative Action was designed to end segregation in the United States so that the offspring of minority groups who struggled in US history can also get the chance to go to school, but the reality is a huge percent of black people in elite higher education institution are actually socioeconomically advantaged immigrants. Therefore, Affirmative Action does not reach its essential
Research conducted by Wendy Moore points out that the history behind affirmative action was inherently biased towards minorities, although contradictory to its goal. Although she indicates in her article that affirmative action alone will not end the long history of discrimination and inequality in institutions and that affirmative action policies have been diluted in recent times. The latest understanding of affirmative action policies has been widely used as a band-aid to stop further controversies, historically it has also been used as this band-aid to cover centuries of racial inequality, and to show a diverse and fair American culture. For a deeper repair of inequality, affirmative action policies can not be diluted any further. The band-aid-like fix of affirmative action is showing to have an impact, while at times seeming small, the small fixes are still making a difference.
Affirmative action is normally used within education circumstances;
Many universities became alarmed at the growing Asian American student population on their campuses. So much so that once the Asian proportion of their student population reached 10%-15%, they began to reject Asian students who were clearly qualified. many conservatives and opponents of affirmative action began to argue that these Asian American
Affirmative Action is the policy which promotes and installs active engagement in organizations, institutions, and companies to better admit into and employ a diverse environment of students or employees. Introduced in the 1960’s “for aggressive hiring of minorities by the Federal government. The passage of Civil Rights legislation in the late 1960s and the impact of the massive anti-racist struggles waged throughout the United States expanded the idea of affirmative action beyond the immediate locus of Kennedy's memo”(Chrisman 1). Whether it is in a public or private institution, the desire to improve upon the systems of employment which have excluded minorities and women is now encouraged by law. Historically excluded and discriminated groups who could not before have an equal opportunity for a successful career can now have an equal opportunity for success in this country.
Tita Hicks Ms. Ezekiel Period 8 11 January 2017 WHAT IS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION? Affirmative Action is the policy or policies in support of a particular group of people who currently suffer or historically suffered from inequality. Often Affirmative Action policies focus on education and employment and many organizations and institutions actively engage in efforts to improve opportunities for those particular groups who are excluded or unequal in American society. Affirmative action affected minorities and women.
Affirmative action has become obsolete in today’s society. Affirmative action is an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women; also: a similar effort to promote the rights or progress of other disadvantaged persons (Merriam-Webster, 2011). Today’s affirmative action will demoralize the very concepts that the policy was implemented to uphold: those of equality for all people regardless of color and discrimination. This policy supports racial multiplicity at the price of distinction, impartiality and experience; it also follows the line of reverse discrimination and sexual bias against white men (Reyna, Tucker, Korfmacher, & Henry, 2005).
But because of the devaluing of merit and accomplishment that comes within affirmative action, Johnny is failing his way through classes that are then plummeting him into a deep debt of student loans without any academic credits to show for those big dollars. Had he just been accepted to the school that matched his merit abilities he would be putting those pretty pennies towards A’s and B’s, as curriculum with a touch less of academic rigor would suit him just fine. Now, I’ve got the merit and the academic ability to soar at that institution. But because affirmative action makes way for reverse racial discrimination, I will not have the chance to excel. Instead, my hard-work of high test scores and GPA will be devalued against the color of my skin.
Affirmative action is a messy, brute force method of trying to close the enrollment gap. Although on paper it may seem like a good idea to require colleges to admit a certain number of students of color, it actually gives an unfair advantage to minorities. A white student and a student of color with identical grades, test scores, and resumes do not have an equal chance of getting into the same college because one student belongs to a minority. Affirmative action causes the same problem it attempts to solve in reverse. Ashley K., a student who gave her opinion to the New York Times, says that she is “being given an advantage in college admissions” based on her race.
