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

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