Affirmative Action Discrimination has turned the tables in the US
Affirmative Action Discrimination has turned the tables in the U.S.Affirmative action in theory and in thought is intended to promote the welfare of this country’s minorities by supporting the idea that individuals are equal and should not be judged by race or sex. Therefore, in situations like job and university applications, we should consider minorities to be as feasible a choice for hire as a white male candidate, taking into consideration their background. In short, it tries to give minorities that have been at a disadvantage their whole life, an advantage they have never been open too!
All things considered, this does not happen. Instead, “quotas” are established and the discrimination that was once placed on the minorities now turns the other way. Let’s make up a hypothetical situation. You are sending in your first college application to Harvard. There is only one spot left open between you and someone who is black. You have slightly better grades, both of you excelled in sports, you have more volunteer hours, and completed 2 foreign languages where he only has one. Applying affirmative action, you would not get the last position because of the need for ethnic diversity in the college atmosphere. Is that fair??? Is that right?? You clearly had a better dossier then him!!
If affirmative action is supposed to support the individual, why is it solely based on race and why doesn’t it apply to every situation based on the potential of the individual involved? What happens if in this hypothetical situation that I just told you about, you had lived in a shack your whole life, had to work six jobs, support your mom’s crack addiction, and 4 feed other children in the house? When the black guy has been a millionaire his whole life and it has always been easy for him. By singling out the fact that only minorities are the ones that are at a disadvantage you are racially profiling them.
Usually racial profiling is used in a negative sense, and I still am using the term in this fashion. By singling out minorities as the only people that affirmative action applies to, you are discriminating against them from the start. In effect, the policy intended to benefit minorities makes it obvious that they are at a clear-cut disadvantage;...
To view the complete essay, you be registered.