"Affirmative Action"
Affirmative action' is a program designed to address racial discrimination in the work place by providing an analysis of areas in which the employer is deficient in the utilization of minority groups and women. The program has been implemented in response to President John F. Kennedy's executive order, number 10925, entitled The Presidents Committee on Equal Employment,' which later developed into Presidents Nixon's Affirmative Action program, of 1971. It also coincides with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is a government policy intended to help African Americans become full citizens of the United States.
The primary objective of affirmative action is to guarantee equal employment opportunities and identical ministrations for individuals within an employment situation with total disregard of negative actions in reference to a person's race, color, age or sexual identity. In order to implement such a policy, affirmative action imposes a quota based system', in which companies and other various agencies employ or enroll a certain percentage of people from a minority grouping.
Whilst this suggestion appears sound in theory, in practice it creates additional problems. Many colored citizens who have assumed a decent employment status can never be sure if it is the result of individual merit or in compliance of affirmative action quotas. Secondly, if certain positions are set aside for discrepant sectors of the population, discrimination becomes reversed. Young white males are being discriminated against by a policy that is in place to elevate discrimination.
From this minimal example it is clear that American Law enforcement Agencies are aware of the problems of social divisions within the work place and have tried to address the problem as such. Yet they do not appear to have found an appropriate riposte to the conundrum.
Further discrepancies can be observed in the issue of racial profiling. Profiling is said to be...
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