Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action?

Reverse Racism

Affirmative action is wrong and will not help solve the problems minorities face. The reason it is wrong is because it's discrimination. It has no place in today's society because it does more bad than good; also, it appears that affirmative action can actually be detrimental to employee’s health. First of all, affirmative action is discrimination; there is no hiding it. When an employer hires anyone because he or she is a minority, even if someone else if more qualified to do the job, it is discrimination. Just because it is reverse discrimination, when whites are discriminated against and minorities are being discriminated for, doesn't make it right. Affirmative action legalizes discrimination and discrimination is illegal in this country! If this discrimination continues, racism in the United States may become worse. Imagine what you would feel like if you couldn't get a job just because you are a white man and not a Hispanic, or a black man, or a woman for that matter! The racism will become worse because of it, and that is the very thing that we are trying to prevent. It is possible that because of affirmative action, racism will grow and continue to grow until we history repeats itself and we end up living under reversed Jim Crow laws. That is an extreme possibility to end up under Jim Crow laws again, but it is a definite possibility to end up somewhere close. In addition to that, people say affirmative action is ok because it cures past discrimination. Discrimination wasn't ok when blacks were the ones getting the short end of the stick. Therefore it's not ok when whites are discriminated against. Two wrongs don't make a right. Therefore, affirmative action doesn't make discrimination ok just because it's against blacks instead of whites.

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