The history of the United States is the history of overcoming racism and sexism.” This quote is still commonly used and reiterated by Plainfield High School’s History teacher C. Cavanaugh. Truthfully, C. Cavanaugh has a point that racism and sexism still exists, and how America has been trying to overcome these prejudices with solutions. Since most Americans are ignorant to understand the ugliness that their country conceals, many of these solutions are often ignored and are simply not effective. One of these solutions include affirmative action. Affirmative action was first utilized by John F. Kennedy in the 1960’s, and it was designed to foster equality among all, which includes people disregarding their national origin, religion, and gender
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The United States of America has always had a deep rooted history of discrimination and oppression towards women. From the decaying days of racial discrimination, the uproar of segregation of men from women has always been instilled upon the history of this great nation. Whether it be in academics, before affirmative actions, women were always on the losing end of the battle for equality. Affirmative action has benefited women in education, through many outreach programs and curated majors that were once male dominated to entice women to take on the courses. Government subsidy loan programs were also establish to help women with family get back in school to obtain a higher level of education, which can then benefit the economy (“Affirmative Action”). Lastly, affirmative action has led to an increase of women business owners who have since graduated with their higher education degrees; implementation such as government and contracting agreements to help support and encourage women to take hold of their own economical livelihood and contribute to the greater society (“Affirmative Action”). As of this, affirmative action pushes and encourages women to enter traditionally male-dominated fields, so they can escape from the …show more content…
However, many are “color-blind”, and they view it wrongly. Affirmative action does not create reverse racism instead it promotes national acceptance of people of different backgrounds. Affirmative action promotes programs to be initiated that are of the highest guidelines and protocols to seek and recruit the highest quality of people fitting the need of the program. If colleges and universities run these programs properly, they can fundamentally strengthen the academic requirements, and schools can blossom into a more diverse campus. Another point to invalidate is how affirmative action ignores genuine diversity. It does not. A prime example of this was previously argued and debated in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. Abigail Fisher argued that her dream school University of Texas- Austin rejected her because she is Caucasian; however, that was not the case. Instead many Texas high schools are still segregated, and University of Texas-Austin wants to increase diversity, yet admit students who “graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class, regardless of their test scores and other factors” (Watkins). Unfortunately, Abigail never met those academic requirements, and “she has a dim view of success- and diversity”; as a result, she lost the case (Watkins). Affirmative action doesn’t equivocate to the misconception of many of just simply finding people
The United States of America has always had a deep rooted history of discrimination and oppression towards women. From the decaying days of racial discrimination, the uproar of segregation of men from women has always been instilled upon the history of this great nation. Whether it be in academics, before affirmative actions, women were always on the losing end of the battle for equality. Affirmative action has benefited women in education, through many outreach programs and curated majors that were once male dominated to entice women to take on the courses. Government subsidy loan programs were also establish to help women with family get back in school to obtain a higher level of education, which can then benefit the economy (“Affirmative Action”). Lastly, affirmative action has led to an increase of women business owners who have since graduated with their higher education degrees; implementation such as government and contracting agreements to help support and encourage women to take hold of their own economical livelihood and contribute to the greater society (“Affirmative Action”). As of this, affirmative action pushes and encourages women to enter traditionally male-dominated fields, so they can escape from the …show more content…
However, many are “color-blind”, and they view it wrongly. Affirmative action does not create reverse racism instead it promotes national acceptance of people of different backgrounds. Affirmative action promotes programs to be initiated that are of the highest guidelines and protocols to seek and recruit the highest quality of people fitting the need of the program. If colleges and universities run these programs properly, they can fundamentally strengthen the academic requirements, and schools can blossom into a more diverse campus. Another point to invalidate is how affirmative action ignores genuine diversity. It does not. A prime example of this was previously argued and debated in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. Abigail Fisher argued that her dream school University of Texas- Austin rejected her because she is Caucasian; however, that was not the case. Instead many Texas high schools are still segregated, and University of Texas-Austin wants to increase diversity, yet admit students who “graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class, regardless of their test scores and other factors” (Watkins). Unfortunately, Abigail never met those academic requirements, and “she has a dim view of success- and diversity”; as a result, she lost the case (Watkins). Affirmative action doesn’t equivocate to the misconception of many of just simply finding people