Affirmative Action and Racial Tyranny

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This paper explains that some people believe that that affirmative action gives preferential treatment to blacks first, then, in descending order, to women, Native Americans, Hispanics, handicapped, Asians and finally to white males and prevents hard working Americans from being rewarded with promotions because of affirmative action based agendas. The author points out that affirmative action is compensatory justice because blacks and minorities have been mistreated and harmed severely by whites and affirmative action has done more for society than it has done to hurt it. The paper concludes, that the contention that affirmative action is reverse discrimination will be argued for years because of its Catch 22 type of solution: "If minorities and women were mistreated in the past for a morally irrelevant characteristic, then to give them preferential treatment for the same morally irrelevant characteristic is equally indefensible."

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"Over a hundred years ago, American white men owned and profited from black slaves, terrorized and took land from Native American Indians and enjoyed social status over women. As a result of affirmative action, minorities and women now have equality on many levels, benefiting from equal rights, better income opportunities and improved social status as a whole. In its tumultuous 40-year history, affirmative action has been both praised and supported as an answer to racial inequality. The policy was introduced by President Johnson as a method of redressing discrimination that had persisted in spite of civil rights laws and constitutional guarantees."

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