Affirmative_Action_Has_Run_Its_Course

Affirmative Action Has Run Its Course Affirmative Action Has it run its course By: Joan Siegel “It is a mistake to assume that the Negro, who had been a slave for two hundred and fifty years, gained his freedom by the signing, on a certain date, of a certain paper by the President of the United States. It is a mistake to assume that one man can, in any true sense, give freedom to another. Freedom, in a larger and higher sense, every man must gain for himself.” Booker T. Washington In his Autobiography The problem in a realistic model of Affirmative Action is due to the history, political evolution and complicated definition. Affirmative Action as such has never been a law or even government policy. Affirmative Action has been comprised of a series of executive orders, governmental programs, civil rights laws, and enforcement of equal opportunity practices. The basis for Affirmative Action dates as far back as, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which stated “all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws affirmative, action, policies, need, people, race, blacks, been, sowell, society, robert, rights, racial, president, gender, american, york, system, rather, new, loury, government, feel, equal, debate, civil, actions, 1996, woodson, whites, white, washington, state, samuelson, prejudices, preferential