Affirmative Action
...how all Americans should be treated. Affirmative action has long since served a good purpose in American society. In today's day and age, affirmative action discriminates against more people than it actually helps. It appears to take advantage of hard-working Americans who are not protected under its umbrella. Affirmative action is the country's attempt to remedy its history of racial discrimination; but in today's society, it seems to incite rather than ease the nation's racial divisions.
Affirmative action is the government's solution for trying to make up for unjust treatment to certain races in the past and also to attempt to create equal opportunities for certain races. It is impossible to give reparations to certain groups solely based on their race for injustices set upon their ancestors in the past without offending the majority of other races. Also, affirmative action was designed to decrease racism in schools and jobs by providing otherwise unavailable access to social networks. Now that this access has been established, it is time for affirmative action to end. (Galston)
There appears to be several large holes in this action. If the government were able to give compensation to races whose ancestors suffered in the past due to the government's actions (e.g. internment of Asians during WWII, and allowing slavery in the 1800s), it cannot merely give these to any member of that race. For example, millions of immigrants migrated to this country after these events occurred. This suggests that the government is giving special treatment to immigrants who were never mistreated by our government. The government should not be giving these special privileges to any person that just steps foot into this country.
This is where members of races who are not protected under affirmative action get taken advantage of. (Grapes 47)
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