Affirmative action

Affirmative action

Is Affirmative Action Created for Equality?
The United States has the most diverse groups of races and ethnicities in the world; there is no one that has the exact same physical features, intelligence levels, experiences, or backgrounds like others. Diversity is a nature of our society in present time, and it should be embraced socially because it promotes innovation, creativity, and better understanding of the people and the world. However, in effort to give everyone “equal opportunity,” the government created affirmative action to enforce schools and employers to give a preferential treatment for the minority people or women when they apply for a college or a job. In other words, the races or gender are factored into the qualifications for the higher education or employment. In order for the United States to embrace diversity with people’s free will and promote fairness in this ever-changing melting pot, affirmative action should not be enforced on its people. Affirmative action is an outdated, unfair, and unjust process that results in reverse discrimination, so it should be abolished.
Affirmative action was originally designed to help African Americans to have better opportunities as citizens of the United States in a way of compensating the past of slavery and ending racial segregations. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802. This was the first form of affirmative action that outlawed segregationists’ hiring policies by defense- related industries which held federal contracts. It was a desperate measure because of the extreme racism and prejudice against African Americans during this period of history. In present time, there is no more segregation of any kind, and diversity is a norm in our society, but the intent of the system hasn’t changed. Consequently, this old idea that meant to give equal rights to everyone somehow distorted and evolved to give unfair advantages for certain groups of people, which is leading...