Affirmative Action

In many cases, affirmative action takes away from minority success

Affirmative action may, or may not, has been the

reason for hiring, yet that is what most perceives.

People of any race or gender

should be able to hold a job where their respect as equal, not

as "affirmative-action hires".

Affirmative action insists that the employer must "[avoid the kind of

unnecessary escalation of criteria for selection and promotion which has

sometimes been used to keep certain classes of people from entering the

mainstream of our economic life"

We live in a country where a certain percent of the work

force is hired based on their race or gender, not their qualifications.

It is quite obvious that affirmative action does not fulfill the intended

purpose; contrary to its objective, this plan has only created more

discrimination than could ever be imagined.

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Affirmative action programs have helped many minorities gain access

to jobs would not have a chance at. Many believe that if

these programs were put an end to the gains that minorities have made in past

decades would be reversed.

Webster's New World Dictionary definition of affirmative action is Ð''a policy or program for correcting the effects of discrimination in the employment or education of members of certain groups.' President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the Executive Order 11246 requiring federal contractors to use affirmative action to increase the number of minorities that are employed. He also created the Office or Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)