Affirmative Action
The driving force behind affirmative action was set about from past and present experiences of discrimination that has had an unfair course to many minorities throughout the ages of American history. Most critiques of affirmative action believe that different races outside of the white race and women are placed in a position that he or she has not earned and is not ready for. To encourage private and public institutions including, but not limited to higher education facilities, medical hospitals, and law enforcement to be a better liaison of the minority society. To accomplish this a course of action will have to be put into place by targeting recruitment programs geared towards minorities from non-social, and political groups who are at a disadvantage. In what follows I will briefly give an overview of what affirmative action stands for, give many justifications for affirmative action, and why it should be in place.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy first published December 28, 2001, revised 2005 states that “Affirmative action means positive steps taken to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and business from which they have been historically excluded. When those steps involve preferential selection—selection on the basis of race, gender, or ethnicity—affirmative action generates intense controversy.” (Fullinwider, 2005).
“Liberals of affirmative action say that using it to remove discrimination is counter-productive, both because it requires the very discrimination it is seeking to eliminate in order to work and because it promotes prejudice by increasing resentment of those who are the beneficiaries of affirmative action from those who have been adversely affected by th ...