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Affirmative Action Still Needed' An Affirmative Reaction to Affirmative Action Affirmative Action is a term used to describe federal initiatives that require people responsible for providing economic and educational opportunities to consider a candidate's race, sex, or disability, especially if the individual's minority affiliation has suffered past discrimination. Initially, Affirmative Action accomplished what it set out to do, but in this day and age its negative effects outweigh its positive ones. By giving preferential treatment to people of a certain race, Affirmative Action contradicts and undermines the rights guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964: equality of opportunity for all individuals regardless of race. Affirmative Action has replaced discrimination against women and minorities with discrimination against white men--reverse discrimination. It forces colleges and businesses to adhere to quotas, discriminating against the best-qualified individuals, whomever they may be. Hubert Humphrey, the chief sponsor of the act, had promised that if anyone could find "any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there."(Chavez 34) This explains what the writers of the affirmative, action, university, california, minorities, discrimination, white, out, minority, because, time, rights, race, program, one, been, 209, students, set, schools, reverse, racial, quotas, prop, people, men, law, colleges, case, arises, another, against, act, accomplished, year