Anti-Affirmative Action
Patrick Ching
"That student was accepted because of affirmative action policies."
With my first intake of the phrase, I realized that the student, whom I knew and
worked with so many times, the one with such a lack of motivational ability,
confidence, and ideas, was now occupying my chances towards a preferred school.
"Affirmative action", I soon found out, was used by President John F. Kennedy
over 30 years ago to imply equality and equal access to all, disregarding race,
creed, color, or national origin. As a policy setting out to resolve the
problems of discrimination, Affirmative Action is simply nothing more than a
quota of reverse discrimination.
Affirmative Action emphasizes prospective opportunity more towards
statistical measures. It promotes the hiring and acceptance of less experienced
jobs of the workforce and less able students. Sometimes the affirmative action
policies forces employers and schools to choose the best workers and less......
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