One of the most important parts of our country that the affirmative action standards hurt is our economy; it damages our economy because due to the unfair standards that affirmative action represents we don’t always have the most efficient person working in the workforce that they applied for. Instead we have an employee that isn’t as qualified for the job, primarily because he or she is considered to be in a minority. I do understand the fact that many minorities have been discriminated against throughout the years, but I don’t think it is intelligent to hurt our economy because of it. I think the affirmative action standards started out as a ver

Another way it damages our country is by creating racism, which is the exact opposite of what the standards were created to do. Affirmative action standards were developed to help end racism, but what they really do is create reverse racism by discriminating against white males. It basically just creates tension between the citizens of our country because what it ends up doing is compensating today’s generation for past generations wrong doings. The Americans of today don’t want to be punished because their ancestors were slave owners and that is what they see the affirmative action standards as doing.

In concluding I would like to sum up my thoughts by saying that the affirmative action standards can obviously be argued either way, but in the end our supreme court believes that they are still constitutional or they would have voted them out by now. I personally believe that they serve a good purpose and will continue to do so for a period of time. Eventually though, I think that American citizens of all races and genders will begin to see these standards as prejudice and unconstitutional. At this point in time they are still somew

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