The Affirmative Action Affirmative Action The term affirmative action is applied to the use of racial, ethnic, or gender preferences set apart a variety of social benefits. The groups receiving such benifits, such as blacks, indians, and women are assumed to have been victims of discrimination in the past. Thus, a program most definatly benefiting white males as a group would not be an example of affirmative action for most people. This would be as unconstitutional as discrimination against non-whites or women. I feel that the need for affirmative action is varied form case tto case because sometimes people of diffrent races are hired to meet a quota required by state or federal law.
I feel that affirmative action is a quota system because it is forcing you to hire people possibly not qualified just because of their race. I feel the only way to s love this problem is to force people to hire for quality not quality. A more qualified applicant should not be turned down for race or gender.
