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Affirmative Action / Drug War
Assignment 1
Affirmative Action
The term affirmative action has been used to mean steps that have been taken to increase the representation of minorities in different areas, like education and employment, from which the minorities have been historically excluded. When such like steps involve preferential recruitment, then the issue of affirmative action generates a lot of controversies. This is based on the easy Not color Blind; Just Blind by Marshall and Katzebach. The two says that “the term “Affirmative action” was officially used in 1961 when President Kennedy strengthened an existing executive order prohibiting racial discrimination by government contractors in their employment practices.”(13) The reason for making such like statement was to increase the participation of minorities particularly blacks who were discriminated from every contract and every desirable institution of the society. In most places at that time, the blacks were not allowed to enter, for instance, they would not enter restaurants, hotels or even library parts. Diversity din campuses improve the learning operations for everybody. The future of different nations relays upon individuals who have gone through a diverse training system to gain wider exposure. This essay analyses the effects that affirmative action would have on the student, faculty as well as staff, faculty and staff.
There are different ways through which affirmative actions programs can be used to ensure diversity in campuses. For instance in the U.S, only a few black individuals were allowed to enter public law schools in both California and Texas. There have been cases showing that affirmative action is an unfair program to the whites; however fair for diversity in campuses. In the essay Not Color Blind: Just Blind, the authors Burke and Katzenbach says: “In 1989, the Piscataway school board, faced with the need to lay off a single teacher, chose to lay off a white while retaining an African American of equal seniority and qualification.” (Burke and Katzenbach, 11) The reason that led the board to make such like a decision is because they were according to the affirmative action policy as a decisive factor. Affirmative action was intended to level the racial playing field and give minorities chances in the workplace and the classroom that they would not have received in the absence of affirmative action. However, the minorities have had more opportunities. In so doing, diversity is attained in campuses; as the whites who appear to be majority are retrenched while the blacks who are minority are retained. On the other hand, the program is much painful to those fell as victims. For instance according to the essay, Affirmative action is it fair, the author Terry explains that, “the effort to regulate on the basis of race can have unanticipated consequence…. For race has suffered discrimination.”(4) This implies that, though affirmative action can ensure diversity in campuses, but the victims especially the whites will suffer more.
Another I dear is that, affirmative action programs have been used to increase the campus attendance for minority campus students. The administrators and educators have been encouraged to recruit minority students. As an effect, diversity increases. According to, not Color Blind: Just Blind, the authors Burke and Nicholas claim that, “some applicants are admitted on the basis of judgments about potential and predictions about future performances and predictions about future performances not unlike those used in employment decisions. A student from a poor school who qualifies might be seen despite a lower score, as having a higher motivation and aptitude.” (15) this in one way or the other ensures that student coming from minority areas have a chance of joining universities. It is true that, such like students might have other talents, which when he would have been in big schools would have performed better. The authors were trying to explain the point that, there comes a time when qualification is not only based tests a lone, but on other qualities. On the other hand, the program though increases diversity in Universities, but According to, not Color Blind: Just Blind, the authors Burke and Nicholas claim that; it might have some negative effects on the minority students. This is based on the fact that, “an institutional need for qualified African Americans on the grounds that diverse student body contributes to educational excellence and prepares students to live in an integrated society.” (16) No body has ever criticized the significance of diversity in education, though the perception of most critics might make its attainment much difficult. In addition, those African Americans who end up qualifying for the campus admission pool due to Affirmative action might end up not performing well. This is based on the fact that, they lack motivation and superior determination, this is because, the majority will not like associating with them, as they are looked upon as failures.
Another issue is that, affirmative actions have introduced remedial programs in most campuses, on the basis of ethnicity and race, as an effect, increasing diversity. According to the essay, Affirmative action is it fair it has explained that “whenever a formative action operates, such program leads some individuals to think that, every minority student or every minority employee would not have won the opportunity without the preferential treatment.”(4) This explains the point that, there selection is not based on the on the ability, or the preparation level. As an effect, it communicates the tacit assumption that both blacks and Latino students are intellectual quality suspect regardless of their class or educational background. Diversity under such circumstances a rises, when such students never erase such like stigma, till he succeeds in non preferential environments like in sports, this is according to according to the essay, Affirmative action is it fair by Terry, who claims that;”no one receives preferential treatment in sports, so no one has self doubts induced by self affirmative action, no one has to transcend affirmative action.” by ending affirmative action will lead to conditions under which individuals ends up shining, just as significantly as shining one ones own merits. When individuals keep on succeeding in other fields other than academics, such unique individuals tent to introduce the element of diversity. This means that, the campus will not only be made up with individuals who can succeed in academics, but also individuals who are in positions of succeeding in other fields like sports.
The use of race as selection criteria in most universities jobs has made most blacks in university jobs in the United States to lose some of these jobs for the consideration of Hispania’s community which seem to be underrepresented. At this time, diversity has to be used as criteria of giving room for the discrimination against minority group members. In his essay Affirmative Action: is it Fair, Terry explains that, “Even president Clinton has said that he would support laying off black teachers in place of white teachers if doing so will promote diversity.”(8) It is true that by using racial and ethnic criteria in the name of affirmative action, it has encouraged individual s especially the Americans always think of themselves in terms of ethnic and racial groups. However, if applied well, without discrimination, it can be used to encourage diversity in most universities. For instance, going with the essay; not Color Blind: Just Blind, written by Burke and Nicholas, “to hire or promote an African American is often viewed as risky. Will he or she be accepted by the fellow whites?” (14) This explains that, at the workforce only whites are in a position of being taking control, as they are perceived to be self minded. So basing on such ideas, ethnic and racial factors can not encourager diversity in institutions, but just encouraging the recipe for the resentments and chauvinism, as neither of them has an objective of promoting the good health of institutions democracy.
In conclusion, according to the analysis done, affirmative action has a lot of effects on the students, faculty and staff as a whole. To every grou...
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Affirmative Action
The term affirmative action has been used to mean steps that have been taken to increase the representation of minorities in different areas, like education and employment, from which the minorities have been historically excluded. When such like steps involve preferential recruitment, then the issue of affirmative action generates a lot of controversies. This is based on the easy Not color Blind; Just Blind by Marshall and Katzebach. The two says that “the term “Affirmative action” was officially used in 1961 when President Kennedy strengthened an existing executive order prohibiting racial discrimination by government contractors in their employment practices.”(13) The reason for making such like statement was to increase the participation of minorities particularly blacks who were discriminated from every contract and every desirable institution of the society. In most places at that time, the blacks were not allowed to enter, for instance, they would not enter restaurants, hotels or even library parts. Diversity din campuses improve the learning operations for everybody. The future of different nations relays upon individuals who have gone through a diverse training system to gain wider exposure. This essay analyses the effects that affirmative action would have on the student, faculty as well as staff, faculty and staff.
There are different ways through which affirmative actions programs can be used to ensure diversity in campuses. For instance in the U.S, only a few black individuals were allowed to enter public law schools in both California and Texas. There have been cases showing that affirmative action is an unfair program to the whites; however fair for diversity in campuses. In the essay Not Color Blind: Just Blind, the authors Burke and Katzenbach says: “In 1989, the Piscataway school board, faced with the need to lay off a single teacher, chose to lay off a white while retaining an African American of equal seniority and qualification.” (Burke and Katzenbach, 11) The reason that led the board to make such like a decision is because they were according to the affirmative action policy as a decisive factor. Affirmative action was intended to level the racial playing field and give minorities chances in the workplace and the classroom that they would not have received in the absence of affirmative action. However, the minorities have had more opportunities. In so doing, diversity is attained in campuses; as the whites who appear to be majority are retrenched while the blacks who are minority are retained. On the other hand, the program is much painful to those fell as victims. For instance according to the essay, Affirmative action is it fair, the author Terry explains that, “the effort to regulate on the basis of race can have unanticipated consequence…. For race has suffered discrimination.”(4) This implies that, though affirmative action can ensure diversity in campuses, but the victims especially the whites will suffer more.
Another I dear is that, affirmative action programs have been used to increase the campus attendance for minority campus students. The administrators and educators have been encouraged to recruit minority students. As an effect, diversity increases. According to, not Color Blind: Just Blind, the authors Burke and Nicholas claim that, “some applicants are admitted on the basis of judgments about potential and predictions about future performances and predictions about future performances not unlike those used in employment decisions. A student from a poor school who qualifies might be seen despite a lower score, as having a higher motivation and aptitude.” (15) this in one way or the other ensures that student coming from minority areas have a chance of joining universities. It is true that, such like students might have other talents, which when he would have been in big schools would have performed better. The authors were trying to explain the point that, there comes a time when qualification is not only based tests a lone, but on other qualities. On the other hand, the program though increases diversity in Universities, but According to, not Color Blind: Just Blind, the authors Burke and Nicholas claim that; it might have some negative effects on the minority students. This is based on the fact that, “an institutional need for qualified African Americans on the grounds that diverse student body contributes to educational excellence and prepares students to live in an integrated society.” (16) No body has ever criticized the significance of diversity in education, though the perception of most critics might make its attainment much difficult. In addition, those African Americans who end up qualifying for the campus admission pool due to Affirmative action might end up not performing well. This is based on the fact that, they lack motivation and superior determination, this is because, the majority will not like associating with them, as they are looked upon as failures.
Another issue is that, affirmative actions have introduced remedial programs in most campuses, on the basis of ethnicity and race, as an effect, increasing diversity. According to the essay, Affirmative action is it fair it has explained that “whenever a formative action operates, such program leads some individuals to think that, every minority student or every minority employee would not have won the opportunity without the preferential treatment.”(4) This explains the point that, there selection is not based on the on the ability, or the preparation level. As an effect, it communicates the tacit assumption that both blacks and Latino students are intellectual quality suspect regardless of their class or educational background. Diversity under such circumstances a rises, when such students never erase such like stigma, till he succeeds in non preferential environments like in sports, this is according to according to the essay, Affirmative action is it fair by Terry, who claims that;”no one receives preferential treatment in sports, so no one has self doubts induced by self affirmative action, no one has to transcend affirmative action.” by ending affirmative action will lead to conditions under which individuals ends up shining, just as significantly as shining one ones own merits. When individuals keep on succeeding in other fields other than academics, such unique individuals tent to introduce the element of diversity. This means that, the campus will not only be made up with individuals who can succeed in academics, but also individuals who are in positions of succeeding in other fields like sports.
The use of race as selection criteria in most universities jobs has made most blacks in university jobs in the United States to lose some of these jobs for the consideration of Hispania’s community which seem to be underrepresented. At this time, diversity has to be used as criteria of giving room for the discrimination against minority group members. In his essay Affirmative Action: is it Fair, Terry explains that, “Even president Clinton has said that he would support laying off black teachers in place of white teachers if doing so will promote diversity.”(8) It is true that by using racial and ethnic criteria in the name of affirmative action, it has encouraged individual s especially the Americans always think of themselves in terms of ethnic and racial groups. However, if applied well, without discrimination, it can be used to encourage diversity in most universities. For instance, going with the essay; not Color Blind: Just Blind, written by Burke and Nicholas, “to hire or promote an African American is often viewed as risky. Will he or she be accepted by the fellow whites?” (14) This explains that, at the workforce only whites are in a position of being taking control, as they are perceived to be self minded. So basing on such ideas, ethnic and racial factors can not encourager diversity in institutions, but just encouraging the recipe for the resentments and chauvinism, as neither of them has an objective of promoting the good health of institutions democracy.
In conclusion, according to the analysis done, affirmative action has a lot of effects on the students, faculty and staff as a whole. To every grou...
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