The Problem With Affirmative Action

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to the extent they require quotas, goals, or timetables, allowing only recruitment outreach efforts into applicant pools provided no numerical objective is associated with such efforts. (Source - "Some thoughts regarding the present affirmative action debate." by Leonard J. Biermann )
If the justification for affirmative action is reparations for prior injustices why are whites not considered? What about all the other ethnicities that suffered from historical institutionalized racism? Affirmative Action selectively discludes these people from preferential treatment, except for the females.
Another issue is the "immigration-with-preference paradox," as Frederick R. Lynch describes it. This omission of non-black minorities from affirmative action. Frequently, arguments in favor of affirmative action present the case that blacks are "owed" for the past racism and oppression against them. This ignores the fact that a great number of non-black minorities are included in affirmative ...

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as an asset. They still may discriminate against people of color and women if there were no programs out there to give minorities a chance. Many times employers do not see how much of an asset diversity is until they institute an affirmative action program. (Source - "Effective Affirmative Action - Creating Strategic Alliances." by Dawn Hyde)
To look how much affirmative action has helped you only have to look back about thirty years ago. Education opprotunites for minorites such as blacks were not there. If a black male was lucky enough to get into and graduate from a college his employment opprotunities were very low. Only thirty years later minorites who were given a ...

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