Affirmative Action - Easy Street for Black People

Affirmative Action was started to eliminate discrimination in the
workplace by hiring workers on a nondiscriminatory basis. It began in 1961 by
president Kennedy when he issued executive order number 10925 to make federal
contractors take affirmative action(Altschiller, p.5). The goal of affirmative
action is to allow "the victims of discriminatory conduct to the position they
would have occupied in the absence of that conduct" Rehnquist said. Should such
policies be legal and deemed as good or looked down upon as a failed attempt to
solve our racial problems? Affirmative action does not eliminate discrimination
if anything it makes it more of an issue.

Although the concept of affirmative action is good, the result of it on
whites has been bad. In a survey in 1984, one out of ten white males claimed to
have personally felt reverse discrimination. Reverse discrimination is the term
being used to describe discrimination towards whites. Many of these reverse
di...