... biological and inherent OR being constructed socially which means humans create categories such as race and gender. Race has been constructed due to hierarchies and white people having power over African Americans. Back in the 1800's, if an African American could not speak a language similar to the Englishmen, they were considered to be illiterate resulting in that person becoming a slave. Due to ... made up of protestants, Catholics and eastern European Jews.2 The white race was certainly dominant during this time. Anti-miscegenation laws were known as the suicide laws in regards to the...

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... (Bundy 9-15-2000). Alan Bakke, a white man turned down for admission to the Medical School at The University of California, claimed his rights were violated when he did not receive an opening even though his grades and test scores were higher than the minorities (9-15-2000). "The Justice Department contended that applying such standards constituted reverse discrimination against white males" (Ashmore ... 311). Affirmative action should not admit a minority based on color or gender but rather on test standards. "Although rarely acknowledged, it was no less insulting to ... be forced to a...

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... prospect for admission to higher education, entry-level hiring, and job promotion. The prohibiting experienced by women and people of a different color, race, and originality is especially revealing of larger patterns. The race and gender based prohibiting that is the object of current affirmative action policies remain the most noticeable examples of prejudice in apparently impartial selection processes. Offensive in themselves ... can be interpreted in a variety of ways: for an example, as a matter of desert (because they were next inline, based on established criteria of selection, t...

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... programs have been defined by ethnicity, gender, and even sexual orientation. Populary called affirmative action, in reality, it is an unfair racist quota system. In 1964, during the senate debate on the proposed civil rights act of that year, the bills floor manager, Hubert Humphrey, "assured the Senate that nothing in (Title VII of) the bill would permit any official or courtto ... supposedly been held down by official policy has turned into a program of racial, ethnic and gender favortism. Since competitive employment is a zero-sum game, the requirement to to employ a member of a favo...

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