affirmative action
...ur nations veins, it does not outweigh the quotas and court demands placed upon the American employers. The previously disadvantaged are now being selected for work at a high rate, outdoing those who deserve the same job just the same. When the descision was made in 1965 to place Affirmative action upon the white-male dominating executives and managers, there was heaps of discrimination taking place. The majority was depriving and disservicing the minorities, the women and the handicapped. The supreme court decided to not "make-up" 200 inopportuned years, but to avoid making a colorblind society by offering more opportunites to those who typically do not often have the advantage. Mr. Plous of Wesleyan wrote in his "Ten Myths About Affirmative Action", that " Despite the progress that has been made, the playing field is far from level ( since the descision to incorporate AA 30 years ago). Women continue to earn 72 cents for every male dollar. Black people continue to have twice the unemployment rate of White people, and half the median family income." (Plous) Yet, still there are copious amounts of cases that prove underrepresentation of groups that are not included in Affirmative action. Well then I must be one of those still disadvantaged. My great-great grandmother was african american, so I must be part ( minutely) black as well. If I filled my application as so would I receive this unjustified "compensation" by having a slight advantage over others at a job interview. In Harvard many quotas and orders have been placed upon the admissions office. Ron K. Unz worked closely with Harvard for several years and once concluded that, " Non-Jewish white Americans represent no more than a quarter of Harvard undergraduates, although they constitute nearly 75 percent of the general population -- and thus they are far more underrepresented than blacks, Hispanics or any other minority group." As far as colleges are concerned, jobs are as well. Without a college education ( and with that, the better education the better your chances at a certain job), you may not succeed in making a living suitable for upholding a productive life. Wendy McElroy tells a story about her friend who was passed over for a tenure at an ivy-leauge school, "this was surprising to me. He had been teaching at the university for several years and was immensely popular, not only with the students but also within the department. With a book and several journal articles to his credit, his qualifications were in good order. So what was the problem? He explained it to me: he was a white male in a department that needed more visible women a...