Advantages Of Affirmative Action
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Advantages Of Affirmative Action
Throughout history, the American workforce and college campuses have been composed predominantly of white males. In the 1960's, affirmative action programs were created, providing women and minorities with greater equality of opportunity in an attempt to eliminate discrimination in institutions of employment and education (Jackson). Affirmative action policies, including hiring policies based on the proportional representation of minority group workers, and admission policies that target minority applicants for admission, are used to ensure racial diversity and to remedy past and continuing discrimination against minorities (Jost Affirmative). Critics of affirmative action feel that the practice is just authorizing discrimination against white males, and, as Frederick R. Lynch wrote in his book, The Diversity Machine, the affirmative action movement is "promoting a multicultural revolution in the American workplace' that poses a substantial threat' to individualism, equality of opportunity, equal treatment and a sense of national unity and cohesion'" (Jost Diversity). This sort of criticism is becoming increasingly common since about the 1990's, and there have been many anti-Affirmative Action court cases such as University of California Regents v. Bakke, a case in which a law student applicant at the University of California felt that he was denied admission because of his race (Jost Affirmative)(Wohl). Now, bill H.R.4 is under consideration to ban affirmative action, based on the recent cases of unconstitutionality of many current race-based admissions programs. Congressman Robert Matsui, is a supporter of affirmative action, but although he says that his sense of social justice is a product of his incarceration as a child in Japanese internment camps, he also says he is not certain whether his personal experience influences his point of view on affirmative action (Class Handout). Because of his support for affirmative action, Matsui would vote...
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