One of the most recent civil rights policies is Affirmative action. Affirmative
action is loosely defined as lower educational standards for minorities, and a
certain quota of minorities is to be met by employers. Affirmative action is
wrong and will not help solve the problems minorities face. The reason it is
wrong is because it's discrimination. It has no place in today's society because
it does more bad than good. In addition to that, most people don't enjoy the
presence of affirmative action. Also, it appears that affirmative action can
actually be detrimental to employees health. First of all, affirmative action is
discrimination, there is no hiding it. When an employer hires anyone because he
or she is a minority, even if someone else is more qualified to do the job, it
is discrimination. Just because it is reverse discrimination, when whites are
discriminated against and minorities are being discriminated for, doesn't make
it right. Affirmative action legalizes discrimination. I thought discrimination
was illegal in this country. Also , if this discrimination continues racism in
the United States may become worse. Imagine what you would feel like if you
couldn't get a job just because you are a white man and not a Hispanic man. The
racism will become worse because of it, and that is the very thing it is trying
to prevent. It is possible that because of affirmative action, racism will grow
and continue to grow. In addition to that, people say affirmative action is okay
because it cures past discrimination. Discrimination wasn't okay when blacks
were the ones getting the short end of the stick. Therefore it's not okay when
whites are discriminated against. Two wrongs don't make a right. Therefore,
affirmative action doesn't make discrimination ok just because it's against
blacks instead of whites. Affirmative action in college is the most
discriminating thing this country has ever seen. At ivy league colleges the
median GPA of applicants close to 4.0 and SATs are close to 1300, minorities are
let in with GPA's less than 3.0 and SATs less than 1000. The only way for
colleges to achieve ethnic proportionalism is to downplay or abandon merit
criteria and to accept students from typically under represented groups, such as
blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians, over better qualified students from
among whites and Asian Americans. Obviously, affirmative action is allowing
undereducated citizens to get into college when the people that are qualified
aren't getting accepted when they should. When we passed the equal opportunities
law, it didn't mean treat different races differently , it means we should treat
all people as equals, affirmative action doesn't treat everyone as equals. If we
lower acceptance standards for minorities, we should lower standards for
everyone. Since nobody would do that we should raise the standard for
minorities. In addition, if affirmative action gets its way, it will do more
harm than good. Affirmative action will only work short term because if you hire
a minority that's under qualified they'll eventually get fired. Also, you can
only hire so many people, eventually you'll get too much under qualified people
working for you and you'll eventually have to abandon affirmative action all
together. Also, affirmative action doesn't work because it doesn't change
anything. If there is racism in to day's modern age, then racism will always be
present and affirmative action won't work. In addition if we need to
discriminate against white people to give minorities jobs now, it won't change.
Giving someone a job won't do any good in making the quality of life of
minorities better. Just because you enroll more minorities in your college,
doesn't mean you're making the playing field even. When someone isn't good
enough to get into a certain college, they're out of their league when they get
in. To give minorities a better life we have to fix the moral decay caused by
the absence of two parent families to help minorities. Affirmative action is
also insulting to minorities because they may feel they have to be helped out
just to get a job. A minority that benefits form affirmative action may feel
that they're inadequate for the job they were hired for. Every employee that
benefits from affirmative action bears a mark of not being the best pick, but
only the best pick from a limited group. When one thinks about it, they will
discover that they would get a better feeling of satisfaction if they got a job
because they were the best person for the job, not because they were Hispanic.
Employers may also feel cheated because they didn't get as good a worker as they
could have gotten. Employers that hiring employees solely on the color of their
skin are discriminating. Affirmative action is very dangerous to the American
people. If an employee hires an under qualified worker then that worker puts
others at risk if he or she doesn't have enough experience to know what to do
and what not to do. It's also financially dangerous. You don't want to pay
inexperienced people to do work they're not qualified for. In conclusion,
affirmative action is just wrong. Affirmative action should be abolished, such
an unlawful thing shouldn't even be considered in the United States. If we allow
affirmative action to proceed, we are just proving to ourselves that we endorse
and accept discrimination in the workplace. There is absolutely no reason why it
should exist. Affirmative action lends a bad name to the United States of
America. Others may view our fine country as a country with people that are so
irresponsible the government has to lower its standard just to get people jobs.
This indicates that affirmative action should be outlawed because it has no
place in our fine country.