Affirmative Action

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This paper provides a brief historical overview of the laws of affirmative action, since its introduction in 1965. It examines the recent criticism of the practice, that it is considered to be reverse discrimination against more qualified applicants in favor of less qualified minority applicants.

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"According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, affirmative action "is considered essential to assuring that jobs are genuinely and equally accessible to qualified persons, without regard to their sex, racial, or ethnic characteristics."

Since its introduction in 1965, affirmative action has been both praised and denounced as an answer to racial equality. President Johnson, who felt that it was an appropriate remedy to discrimination, which continued to plague the United States regardless of civil rights laws and constitutional pledges, introduced the affirmative action policy as a temporary remedy that would end when a "level playing field" was created for all Americans."

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