Racial Discrimination
Modern myth or discrimination
A number of cases can be evidenced where people of color, working class women, white women as well as men of all races who were facing exclusion (segregated) from educational opportunities or jobs, or were barred from accessing further opportunities after they were admitted, have managed to overturn this and got the access through affirmative action. This became a reality after these policies got executive and judicial support that opened the way that otherwise could have never been achieved. Because of these gains, real changes can now be seen.
The ongoing debate on affirmative action tends to be more than legal issues. Finding ways of ending racism will always be a responsibility and a challenge to every individual within a society, not leaving out the organizations and institutions which have got greater impact to our lives. Nevertheless, there still exists vocal minority that is for the idea that affirmative action should be stopped not as just a legal remedy but as a social commitment as well. As we now see the social changes that affirmative action has brought, there is a group that says that the society has gone too far in correcting racial injustice. They do not realize that they fail to challenge the traditional forms of preference and discrimination that will always favor the educated, the rich, white people and men.
Our society is involved in affirmative action in various aspects on top of leveling the playing field for people of color. This is on the background of hiring and recruiting preferences for veterans, women as well as children from particular quarters is still experienced, (Vernellia R. Randall, 1997). A special economic incentive for purchase of U.S. made products, import quotas against foreign goods, as well as agricultural and textile subsidiaries are on practice. For a long time such overrepresentation of white people, middle class in the well paid jobs, in the professions, and universities have been evidenced.
The establishment of affirmative action was based on the objective of stopping racial discrimination. Through Federal Government, it was mandated with the intention of redressing racial inequality and injustice in a series of steps starting with executive order...
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