affirmative action (U.S.), action taken to affirm an established policy; spec. positive action by employers to ensure that minority groups are not discriminated against during recruitment or employment - taken from oxford english
dictionary
affirmative action is one of the few things minorties have going for them to counter the effects of institutionalized discrimination. It is not racist, beyond
popular white belief. the
people that think it is racist are those that think "white males" are the most discriminated against(which is obviously bullshet since they are the most higher up in
society). Have the skin color "white" does more for a
person than any trivial thing like affirmative action.
minorities already have a burden just because they might have different color skin. many white
people(not all) just cannot stand the thought of other groups having a slight advantage(which it really isnt since so few minorities compared to others actually get to get into those institutions that it counters the belief that a black person is taking a job etc from a white person because of the fact that the workplace, college is probably already
70%+ white)
did u know that after the civil rights acts of the 60s, it only took 14 years, 14 freaking years for a white person to bring up a case of reverse discrimination. think about it Black
people have had practically no rights for like 300 yrs in the country and 250 of them they were slaves, and when they actually get some "rights" it only takes white
people not even 20 years to start protesting about it.
Affirmative Action may take a couple of hundred white, asian
people out of jobs or schools but compared to the millions of minorities that do not even get the chance to be in the position of getting affirmative action, those poor poor white asian
people losing to an under represented minority really dont deserve pity.
im
asian and yea it sucks that it goes against me but hey its cuz asians are perceived as overachieving and colleges probably think they have too much asians so thats a reason why it would affect us. but colleges can never have too many white
people thats for sure.
ps. white
people do not worry you are still in power, the world is not out to get you, your skin color does much much more than anything like affirmative action can do.
