Examples Of Arguments Against Affirmative Action

Action against Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action is rooted into the base of modern American society, we live by it. Knowingly or not, it can decide whether or not a person succeeds in America today. In The United States of America there is a perverse fixation on race and what it means about the person you are and the person you can be. In America there are minority groups that are very underprivileged, yet they do have a level playing field; they simply chose not to use it. In doing so, they slip through the cracks of the system and ultimately fail. In America everyone has access to public schooling, and all of the schools operate under the same standards of learning. Yet bias still finds a way into the system. Affirmative Action leaves
These programs became known as Affirmative Action, which are a set of rules and regulations put in place by the administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, later added to by President Nixon. They were put in place to help give minorities, (most notably blacks and women) a leg up in the workplace and to help them get admitted into college. In article VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, racial discrimination is specifically banned in employment which created created the Employment Opportunity Commision (Bailey). The Civil Rights Act was a huge leap forward for the rights of minorities in America, it finally allowed equal, unsegregated rights for all. Article VII gave African Americans and other minorities a great step in the right direction and gave them a much more equal playing field to success and finally living the American dream. This is (was?) the beginning of the years of Affirmative Action policy. In the late 1960’s President John F. Kennedy mandated that there had to be a more active role in making sure that all races and types of people could be allowed to work (Bailey). But this very mandate led to larger problems, because places like Universities and corporations began creating a quota of minorities to hire. This intensified under President Lyndon B. Johnson (Bailey). This means that over time there was less hiring done based off the
There is no further need for the programs that were put in place decades ago. “The Supreme Court only needs to take one short step to do the job that Brown v. Board of Education in the case against segregation in schools failed to do. It should declare that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment commands a colorblind Constitution which neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”(Erler). This explains that Affirmative action is useless and it should come to a close, because the constitution neither knows nor tolerates color. Affirmative Action has only become a further burden on the American people and it should be ended. Furthermore, the fact that it is still legal is only creating more bigotry in on itself. “because a mere separation of the races did not imply "a badge of inferiority (Erler). This led to segregation staying legal as long as it did, because once the supreme court made a decision it became law. Yet in the endgame it did imply a badge of inferiority because they were not separate and equal, they were separate and unequal. When Affirmative Action was established it was to end this way of thinking. Since it has accomplished its goal, it has begun to start turning the racism in the other direction, towards whites. Affirmative Action needs to close up shop, it did what it had to do and now it is only hurting, not