Affirmative_Action

Affirmative Action Affirmative Action For more than two decades, affirmative action has been under continual assault. In courts, legislature and the media, opponents have deprecated it as an unprincipled program of racial and gender preferences that threaten basic American values of fairness, equality, and democratic opportunity. In short, it is neither fair nor functional in its distribution of 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, these, prohibiting also signal the insufficient of traditional methods of selection for everyone, and the need to rethink how we assign educational and employment opportunities. Affirmative action needs to focus on economics rather than race. A richer person in society doesn’t need a leg up; the poor do, whether they are black, white, or purple. “ Doe action, affirmative, value, selection, race, prohibiting, job, fairness, world, values, two, sturm, september, retrieved, recognition, position, person, need, matter, higher, high, guinier, gender, functional, especially, claims, basic, based, 2001, worked, women, windsor, wide, white, whether