Affirmative Action

As the Civil Rights Movement rolled through the culture and society in the United States during the middle of the 20th Century, equality and equal rights continuously shocked the fabric of our culture. The United States was founded upon basic human values with the impression that the culture as a whole would forever be positioned for equality and upholds a basic level of beliefs that everyman was created equally. Unfortunately, the past few centuries have been unable to uphold this basic principle. As the Civil Rights Movement called for reform, the government suggested a new ideal understood as Affirmative Action. The belief behind Affirmative Action was to promote and ensure equal rights to all. With hope and the natural dedication of the American people, the government assumed this would finally create the long sought after equality. However, affirmative action has recently become extremely and increasingly unpopular as it begins to affect and hurt more people than it is actually helping. The American society is now brining this idea to question and is testing the overall effectiveness of such a theory. As society over time continues to adapt and advance, affirmative action has become a superseded ideal that has become obsolete in the ever-advancing modern society due to the reverse discrimination by-product that the notion has led to, the perpetual rejection of minority attainment, and the race-based decisions that prevent a color-blind society.

The historical roots of segregation tie deeply into the religious factions that were dominate in the time period of the development of the United States and the prominent European exploration. Over time, the idea of race has generated a categorization system that places people within g...

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... hold a helping hand to achieve the personal goals of a select few and discriminate against large portions of the population. Due to the results of affirmative action, many minorities are quickly entering workforces and educational careers they are simply not prepared or qualified for. The ethnic quota system supported by the notions of affirmative action is creating generations of under qualified individuals. Between 1990-2011, the Caucasian demographic group reported the lowest educational dropout rates in comparison to African American and Hispanic groups according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This study might be an indication that the minorities receiving unjust priority acceptance and are unqualified may in fact be the primary reason as to why the dropout rates for minorities differ so greatly in comparison to their Caucasian counterparts.