In 1961 the phrase affirmative action was used for the first time and as it was here, it was used in a case of racial discrimination. The first time this phrase was used was in an Executive order from John F. Kennedy stating that federal contractors were to hire using affirmative action to employ regardless of color, creed, race, or nation origin. Kennedy's executive order and the policies shortly following it had the right intentions. They were designed to eliminate discrimination. But since then these good intentions have deviated from what its original intentions were, producing much different policies regarding affirmative action.

The deviation from equal opportunity to job employment changed to what took place in Congress after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After 1964 this shift was to minorities demanding their statistical share of the job market, no longer equal opportunity but rather a cry for what they belie

Addressing one problem of affirmative action, I believe that it takes something away from and hurts the minorities it was intended to benefit, by down-playing the achievements of all minorities in the work place and in the many other areas of achievement. For example let us say Cornell takes a student based solely on his merit, not taking into consideration his color, creed, race, or gender, and that it turns out this student is African American and felt no need to check off the box on his application concerning color. All his peers may nonetheless think and even may go as far to say to him that the only reason he is here is because he is black. Situations like the hypothetical example proposed here only further racial tension and place distance between the races, only furthering racism, and making racial tension worse on college campuses across the U.S.. When asking black students from my graduating class from the Prep. who now currently attend Cornell how they feel they are being treated they told me they feel as if they're being treated as affirmative action cases by professors and by students. If one was to look at their academic records one would see they are even more qualified than me and affirmative action would never apply to me, as a white male

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