Affirmative

Affirmative Action
Kimberly Brooks
POS/110
September 18, 2011
John Day

Affirmative Action
A
ffirmative action was commenced in the year of 1961 by the former President Kennedy as a procedure for addressing the issues of discrimination that was still contemporary in spite of the civil right laws and constitutional guarantees (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 2007). Affirmative action targets at assisting minorities and women’s equal rights to employment and education. Affirmative action was controversial when it started in 1960; however to this day affirmative action is still a controversial topic. Increased interest and understanding to the pro and cons of affirmative action, will able people to appoint educated judgments about affirmative action being advantageous or injurious.
Affirmative action is an obstinate of public policies that are meant to protect the civil rights of deprived individuals of minority races that are women. Policies of affirmative action oblige that every state and local governments as well as businesses that are affiliated with government funding shall embrace the ethics of affirmative action (Edward III, Wattenberg, Lineberry, 2008). The morality action of affirmative action is the restored behavior of associates of minority groups and women. A numerous amount of people argued that affirmative action policies were sacrilegious to the principle of the law that insist that all individuals are equivalent. The policy associated to the affirmative action needs some repairing.
Although affirmative action was a stage of advancement for minorities and women to become equivalent in the fields of employment and education, there was still areas of elusiveness. Affirmative action has been the subject matter of numerous court cases where unusual rulings have solution from the altered understandings of the policies. However, affirmative action is an necessity to give surety to women’s and minorities that are forthcoming of the same...