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Affirmative Action

 

            
            
             Think of this, a man is ignored and shut out at work because everyone thinks he got his job because of his color. The problem is, he was more qualified than every other person, black or white, that applied for the job, and he is treated like he is not qualified. The ways that people look at each other is different in the workplace because everyone wonders if they or a co-worker has gotten their job due to affirmative action. Minorities think that affirmative action is used to help past wrongs, but whites see it as a form of reverse discrimination. People say that unqualified minorities get jobs from more qualified whites, and that is causing more qualified people to take lower paying jobs. Since the beginning of the use of affirmative action, America has become a racially tense and a strained place to live in, since whites and minorities fail to agree on the effectiveness of this practice. Is affirmative action fair? Are minority groups on equal footing? Is gaining employment for minorities difficult? Is education easily obtained for the minority groups of people? Affirmative action endeavors to answer all these questions, while allowing society to believe harmony exists. Affirmative Action is defined by Webster's New World College Dictionary as "a policy or program for correcting the effects of discrimination in the employment or education of members of certain groups." .
             Affirmative Action was designed to help eliminate past & present discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Affirmative action has been a driving force to ensure that diversity has developed and prospered in today's work field. This needed policy in the workplace has ensured jobs among minorities and women who where highly discriminated against before the policy was law. The workplace needs diversity to acquire a variety of people with different and unique skills. Corporate affirmative action is a necessary policy to generate and ensure diversity in the workplace; this policy has been successful in improving the advancement of minorities in America.


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