Affirmative Action / Do We Really Need It ?
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...federally mandated requirement of aggressively seeking out minorities for employment and giving certain advantages to these minorities over non-minorities in terms of hiring and promotion practices, is an effective vehicle for the promoting the welfare of disadvantaged ethnic groups and women in the modern day workplace. The converse of this argument, however, is that Affirmative Action policies in fact hurt these same groups and serve as the basis for reverse discrimination against the white male in the workplace. Regardless of the pro's and con's of Affirmative Action, it could be proposed that the policies of the last three decades have become so ingrained in the corporate and governmental fiber of the American system that these policies would persist even if Affirmative Action (as an official governmental policy) were abolished. Background It is difficult to put a concise definition of the phrase "Affirmative Action". According to Christopher Edley, Jr. (Special Counsel to President Clinton, 1995) in his committees report to the President, the most currently accepted definition of Affirmative Action is:...
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