Discrimination/Affirmative Action
From the start of this culture, people have questioned personal rights for equality because many did not receive the same equal opportunity as others did. Roughly two-hundred years of cruelty shadowed over minorities in America and as time rendered on our society found affirmative action as a remedy to insure equality for minorities. Instead today, many have found affirmative action to be illegal and no longer exist in many states, including the State of California. Nevertheless, enabling affirmative action would greatly influence our society in many positive aspects, which include adding to the development of our society's acceptance of other cultures, define the rights of our peoples' nation and bring people away from discrimination and advance people towards equality.
The history and progression of affirmative action began in the liberal sixties to redress racism and sexism in the work and educational force despite constitutional guarantees and civil rights laws. President John. F. Kennedy fueled the movement towards equal opportunity and thereafter his assassination, President Lyndon Johnson took further steps towards affirmative action by signing Executive Order 11246 in 1965 to guarantee equality throughout work and educational forces that were federally financed by the government. Past affirmative action has helped a small integration of these aspects into our society, but it depends on the future existence of affirmative action to deal with society's struggle with equality and discrimination. The controversy of affirmative action creates a great division between people and their differences on the issue, but the basis of affirmative action was to aim for equal opportunity for minorities and to not discriminate against. With many different viewpoints on affirmative action, a common argument people make is the unfairness of affirmative action. In contrast, research on affirmative action has made me strongly...