What Is Affirmative Action?
When thinking about affirmative action, we can often associate it with race, ethnicity, skin color, religion, and many other types of discrimination. However, the most common form of affirmative action involves race and skin color in an attempt to provide "equal opprotunity". It was originally created to achieve a level of non-discrimination. Over the years, affirmative action has provided great educational opprotunities for minorities.
More Information on Affirmative Action:
In the following video from the CNN website, we can see how Affirmative Action has contributed to the variance of race throughout the years.
Sonia Sotomayer is one of many examples of a "product" of Affirmative Action. You can see that many people of many different races in America have different thoughts on Affirmative Action. While some will agree that affirmative action has given opprotunity to minorities, those same people will also agree that affirmative action has done its job and should be terminated.
Recently, many have talked about ending Affirmative Action. Many have also said that Affirmative Action should have never been put into effect.
What Do I Think?
I think that Affirmative Action is a great way to ensure that all races are treated equally. Eventually, it will be necessary to end Affirmative Action and learn to provide equal opportunity for everyone without it being a requirement. While we are taking small steps to completely eliminating racial discrimination, we still have a long way to go and we will definitely need assistance.
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