Affirmative action
Affirmative action
It is
the most hotly debated policies of the past half century. The topic become
serious due to consideration of racial discrimination or some time
discrimination based on gender basis. The discrimination is not localized but
widespread, whether it is workplace or our present college or university place.
The main cause of the discrimination is the wrong thinking of one group to
think of themselves superior in comparison to minority group. During world war,
II Franklin Roosevelt barred the discrimination in the federal government and
in war industries.
John F. Kennedy establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity
committee that required projects getting the federal fund should use
affirmative action to avoid the bias in hiring and employment practices. Later
on Lyndon Johnson outlawed discrimination in 1964 by introducing Civil Rights
act, which require to take affirmative action to hire employees without regard
the race , religion and gender.
Affirmative action are
challenged by many times, few notables examples are Regents
of University of California v Bakke (1978), and Grutter
v Bollinger (2003). In case of University of California v Bakke, Allan
Bakke sued regarding his admission to university of California’s medical school
regarding racial quotas in the admission in public university. In other case
Grutter has applied to the University of Michigan Law School and was denied, so
he sued the university believing that admission refusal denied the Equal
protection clause of 14 th amendment and Title VI of the 1964 civil Right Act.
For maintain the
harmony in the society it is good that we should accept the person of various
background and ethical base. Every person should be allowed to explore the
possibility of growth and opportunity. History has shown that no society can
grow without the contribution of the monirty so it is necessary to go for all
round development of the society, which encompasses the growth of all section
of the society.
References
Adam Liptak, “Race and College
Admissions, Facing a New Test by Justices,” New York Times (October
8, 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/us...pagewanted=all
Jamilah Lemieux, “Affirmative Action vs White Privilege,” Ebony (October 2012) http://www.ebony.com/news-views/affi...-privilege-119
Jamilah Lemieux, “Affirmative Action vs White Privilege,” Ebony (October 2012) http://www.ebony.com/news-views/affi...-privilege-119
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