Affirmative Action: A Discussion

Black, White, Yellow, Red; you may not think of colors as job requirements, but in a world that advocates Affirmative Action, they are. Entertain the thought for a moment, if teachers made it to where only black students could choose which time to turn in their assignments? Or if only the white students got points deducted for turning in late work? This thought that I brought to you, is no mere thought, it's a reality and quite a frightening one it is, and its name? Affirmative Action.

According to the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, Affirmative Action is "an action or policy that favors those who are of a minority group that has a history of grievances." Many examples of Affirmative Action in use is when employers specifically choose minority applicants over qualified white applicants or fire white workers in order to replace them with others of different racial backgrounds with the only excuse for this being to "diversify the workforce," what's rather strange is that this isn't even what Affirmative Action was originally intended for, let's take a look back to the origins of Affirmative Action.

Affirmative Action found its beginnings in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movement when President John F. Kennedy made it mandatory that "employers not discriminate in choosing their employees based solely upon the color of their skin." In that sentence alone, we see a glaring error in Affirmative Actions’ modern usage "Not discriminate in choosing their employees based upon the color of their skin," by choosing those minority groups over say a common non-Hispanic white man ignoring whatever merits the latter may have, is inherently racist discrimination which Affirmative Action was originally supposed to suppress so it in contemporary usage is a living oxymoron.

In the United States of America, we have always had and cherished the clause "We find these truths to be self-evident, that every man is made equal," in the Declaration of Independence, yet it has taken us 100s of years to apply it even in increments from the Emancipation Declaration of the 1860s to Women's Suffrage of the 1920s, and all the way to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s we have had this struggle in America for real equality, but even after all this struggle, all these movements, all this time we still continue this absurd idea that skin color makes a difference. I live in hope that one day, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next week, or maybe even the next few years, but one day that Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's dream becomes a reality that "a man is judged based upon the content of his character, and not the color of his skin,” Thank you.

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