FREE ESSAY ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN THIS COUNTRY.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN THIS COUNTRY.

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 in
today's society because it does more bad than good. In addition to that most people don't
enjoy the presence of affirmative action. Also, it appears that affirmative action can
actually be detrimental to employees 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 (Steele 1990, 39). I thought
discrimination was illegal in this country (Buchanan 1995, 1). Also, 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 man. The racism will become worse because of it, and that is the very thing it
is 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 Jim Crow
laws again. That is an extr!
eme possibility to end up under Jim Crow laws again, but it is a definite possibility to
end up somewhere close to Jim Crow laws again.
In addition to that, people say affirmative action is ok because it cures past
discrimination (Keyes 1996, 1). 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 (DeWit 1996, 1). Two wrongs don't make a right. Therefore, affirmative action
doesn't make discrimination ok just because it's against blacks instead of whites. 
Affirmative action in college is the most discriminating thing this country has ever seen
since the Jim Crow laws many years ago (Buchanan 1995, 1). At ivy league colleges the
median GPA of applicants is close to 4.0 and S.A.T.'s are close to 1300, minorities are
let in with GPA's less than 3.0 and S.A.T.'s less than 1000 (D'Souza 1990, 231). 
The only way for colleges to achieve ethnic proportionalism is to downplay or abandon
merit criteria and to accept students from typically under represented groups, such as
blacks, hispanics, and american indians, over better qualified students from among whites
and asian americans (D'Souza 1990, 231).
Obviously, affirmative action is allowing undereducated citizens to get into college when
the people that are qualified aren't getting accepted when they should. When we passed
the equal opportunities law, it didn't mean treat different races differently, it means
we should treat all people as equals, affirmative action doesn't treat everyone as equals
(Hacker 1990, 229). If we lower acceptance standards for minorities, we should lower
standards for everyone. Since nobody would do that we should raise the standard for
minorities.
In addition, if affirmative action gets its way, it will do more harm than good.
Affirmative action will only work short term because if you hire a minority that's under
qualified they'll eventually get fired. Also, you can only hire so many people,
eventually you'll get too much under qualified people working for you and you'll
eventually have to abandon affirmative action all together. Also, affirmative action
doesn't work because it doesn't change anything (Keyes 1996, 1). If there is racism in
today's modern age, then racism will always be present and affirmative action won't work.
In addition if we need to discriminate against white people to give minorities jobs now,
it won't change. Giving someone a job won't do any good in making the quality of life of
minorities better. Just because you enroll more minorities in your college, doesn't mean
you're making the playing field even. When someone isn't good enough to get into a
certain college, they're out of their l!
eague when they get in. Only 15% of black and 22% of hispanic affirmative action students
accepted to Berkeley in 1987 graduated (D'Souza 1990, 233). To give minorities a better
life we have to fix the moral decay caused by the absence of two parent families to help
minorities (Keyes 1996, 1).
Affirmative action is also insulting to minorities because they may feel they have to be
helped out just to get a job (Steele 1990, 37). A minority that benefits form affirmative
action may feel that they're inadequate for the job they were hired for. Every employee
that benefits from affirmative action bears a mark of not being the best pick, but only
the best pick from a limited group (DeWit 1996, 1). When one thinks about it, they will
discover that they would get a better feeling of satisfaction if they got a job because
they were the best person for the job, not because they were hispanic. Employers may also
feel cheated because they didn't get as good a worker as they could have gotten (DeWit
1996, 1). Employers that hiring employees solely on the color of their skin are
discriminating (DeWit 1996, 2).
Affirmative action is very dangerous to the american people. If an employee hires an
under qualified worker then that worker puts others at risk if he or she doesn't have
enough experience to know what to do and what not to do. It's also financially dangerous.
You don't want to pay unexperienced people to do work they're not qualified for.
In conclusion, affirmative action is just wrong. Affirmative action should be abolished,
such an unlawful thing shouldn't even be considered in the United States. If we allow
affirmative action to proceed, we are just proving to ourselves that we endorse and
accept discrimination in the workplace. There is absolutely no reason why it should
exist. Affirmative action lends a bad name to the United States of America. Others may
view our fine country as a country with people that are so irresponsible the government
has to lower its standard just to get people jobs (DeWit 1996, 2). This indicates that
affirmative action should be outlawed because it has no place in our fine country.