Affirmative Action

1.     What is Affirmative Action?

Affirmative Action refers to any policy, program, law or “action” that promotes equal treatment regardless of race, sex, age, religion or ethnicity. Basically it ensures equal opportunity for all people in instances of housing, school or employment etc. The government of the United States was the first to recognize and in act laws ensuring equal treatment, the term itself was coined by John F. Kennedy in an executive order in 1956 in a response to discrimination in the workplace and under the law. The executive order made such discrimination illegal. The American Association of Affirmative action is the group that promotes and enforces these Affirmative laws.

2.     Does affirmative action mean hiring or promoting unqualified people just because they are minorities or women?

I think that affirmative action is almost essential. It makes it law that everyone person has to be treated equally under the law. Since we all know that history has been fairly biased towards minorities, and it seems like no matter what color women carry a double whammy. It is not intended to promote the hiring an unqualified individual though I am sure that it does happen. Businesses and organizations can not always me trusted to operate under a good faith promise, and must be checked up on. I would like to think that humanity has evolved enough to see the basics of the equality issue, though I know that they have not. So yes I believe that Affirmative Action is indeed necessary.

3.     Why is there such strong reaction against affirmative action?

As in any new idea it is being rebuked by the one the action is meant for. White people have been bred and conditioned to believe that they are genetically superior to other races, some white men in particular have this attitude that they have the right to do as they will with the people and things they see as inferior to their brimming intellect, as if they are at the right hand of...