The supporters of affirmative action admitted that it does discrimination in the technical term but it for social justice for the past minorities that have been deprived of social opportunity. Putting minorities in better positions to get into better schools and better jobs in the future is why affirmative action should continue to promote equality is society. One of the reasons it shouldn’t continue according to white males is that it causes reverse discrimination against white males at the work place. Affirmative action should continue because it helps the less advantage in society increase their chances of a better
Josephine Clark SOC-322-(WA) 2 Semester-September 2011 Affirmative action involves federal government measures for reducing institutional discrimination. The purpose of Affirmative Action is to provide opportunities for minorities and women but companies use affirmative action to create quotas. Before the government got involved with the institutional discrimination, minorities and women were denied opportunities of equal rights. Affirmative action gives special consideration to racial minorities and women, for jobs and educational opportunities. Affirmative action also gives preferential treatment to minorities because they are discriminated against by the normal operations of a society.
Equality Opportunity’ in that the burdens of racism can only be overcome by taking race into account. Affirmative action also aims to reflect the racial diversity of the nation, the ‘Equality of Results’, within schools, the firm and the workplace. Despite being mainly supported by Democrats, and rejected by Republicans President Nixon played a significant role in affirmative action by instituting ‘set aside’ policies to reserve a certain percentage for minorities. The main advantage of affirmative action is that is leads to a greater diversity in societies main institutions, arguably this would not be achieved had things been left as they were. It is also argued on the basis of righting those previously wronged, by opening areas of education and employment that would not have previously been available to minorities.
Take Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for example, Dr. King played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement that led to the desegregation of the South. There are some cities and states that refuse to have a street or even a park named after him. According to Schaefer, “Efforts to recognize significant figures in African American history have often been controversial. There are only 650 cities in 41 states that have renamed streets in honor of the late and great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” Oh my dear friend when will we all love and live as one as Dr. King wanted? Another issue my people haven faced for some time is racial profiling and here lately it has been on the hot seat!
Effects of Affirmative Action on Higher Education & Employment Carolina Correa Assumption College Understanding Affirmative Action One can say that public policies can be judged in terms of intent, outcome and message. Affirmative Action was originally needed to deal with disparities - social, economic, political and educational in America. The American Psychological Association (1996) has provided the following definition of affirmative action: “Affirmative action occurs whenever an organization expends energy to make sure there is no discrimination in employment or education and, instead, equal opportunity exists” (p. 5). Affirmative action and equal opportunity differ from each other in terms of the philosophies that underlie them(Crosby, 1994).Affirmative action was intended to give women and minorities access to educational and occupational opportunities that previously had been closed to them, either because of present discrimination or because of the present effects of past discrimination. The Affirmative Action program was initially an emergency stop-gap measure to resolve a serious and immediate problem.
Some are quick to point to gains made by African Americans since the civil rights movement; and, indeed we can point to these noticeable advancements including the first black president in the White House. President Obama can be held accountable for what happened in Ferguson after the grand jury decision as well. After seeing the overly aggressive behavior of Ferguson police against protesters and the press back in August, the president suggested a review of the federal political militarization of the police known as Program 1033. But the president did not follow up, and the review died in the corridors of Washington. So is it any surprise that after the grand jury verdict, the local Ferguson police force went right back to shooting smoke bombs and tear gas, using armored tanks and arbitrarily changing protest routes and restrictions, all but provoking a new
Critique of ADA and Affirmative Action The ADA's role in society is to prohibit discrimination against a person with a mental or physical disability in regard to public services, telecommunications, employment, and transportation. (American Disability Act, 2009) Affirmative Action is a set of policies and initiatives created to eliminate discrimination based on color, religion, race, sex, and national origin. (National Organization for Women, 2009) Ms. Powers will discuss how Affirmative Action and the ADA are helpful in promoting a nonbiased society but will demonstrate the large gaps in both initiatives. The ADA was designed to allow people with disabilities to contribute to society and one way of contributing is through employment.
Many African American parents were losing jobs if they supported the lawsuit. But many parents believed that it had to end and they wanted 100 percent equality. On Jan. 24, Judge Irving Kaufman ruled that the New Rochelle school board intentionally segregated blacks and ordered the district to develop a desegregation plan. The district appealed to hearing and loosed in August. In addition the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case.
Many groups have struggled for change and equality from the 1940s to the 1960s. African Americans were one of the many groups to have struggled for change and equality. The march on Washington was one of the several battles against racial discrimination to have taken place during these times. Prior to World War II, 75 percent of defense contractors refused to hire African Americans, and another 15 percent employed them only in menial jobs. In response to such discrimination, A. Philip Randolph, president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, planned a march on Washington where he called on African Americans to come to capital on July 1, 1941.
The first attempt to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in September 1957 played an extremely important part in the black civil rights movement in America. Some of the causes of this were: Generational Racism The 1954 Supreme Court decision to integrate schools throughout America Eisenhower's little faith in supporting the black community in the south because it may make it worse. The first cause I will discuss with the Little Rock crisis was generational racism, that is racism from parent to child from when blacks were slaves. The consequences of this was the mind set that was in a fair amount of white citizens of Arkansas (racism). The families of the white students would not let this happen, and may have decided