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Affirmative Action

The term affirmative action is applied to the use of racial, ethnic, or gendr

prefrences set apart a variety of social benefits.

The groups receiving such benifits, such as blacks, indians, and women are

assumed to havee been victims of descrimination in the past.

Thus, a program most definatly benifiting white males as a group would not

be an example of affirmative action for most people.

This would be as unconstitutional as discrimination against non-whites or

women.

I feel that the need for affirmative action is varied form case tto case

because sometimes people of diffrent races are hired to meet a

quota required by state or federal law. I feel that affirmative action is

a quoata system because it is forcing you to hire people possibly

not qualified just because of their race.

I feel the only way to slove this problem is to force people to hire for

quality not quanity. A more qualified applicant should not be turned

down for race or gender.