Affirmative Action: Leveling the Playing Field or Reversing Discrimination
Affirmative Action
Leveling the Playing Field, or Reversing Discrimination?
In its creation during the term of Lyndon B. Johnson, affirmative action was a designed program implemented with the hopes of ending racism and discrimination in this country. How was it intended that our nation carry out this goal? “By instituting a good faith effort by employees and employers to address past and/or present discrimination through a variety of specific, result-oriented procedures.”(OAP) In theory …
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…are receiving the same education at the elementary through high school levels. It should not be practiced at a level that influences the job market. Whatever the reason may be, whether it is to level the playing field or increase cultural diversity, there is no place for the practice of affirmative action in our country today.
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**Bibliography**
-www.OAP.com
-www.UCLA.edu
-www.coalitionagainstaffimativeaction.org
-www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte
-www.whitehouse.gov
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