affirmative action

Title: affirmative action
Category: History
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affirmative action

equal opportunity vs. legal discrimination Race and ethnicity both have been at the eye of America's ethical hurricane over equality before the law. Equality is at the core of the United States, both culturally and legally. At the current situation, discrimination is inarguably unlawful and unfair. Legislation decided that if it not remedied voluntarily, it would be remedied by court order. And so, affirmative action took its place in workplaces and admissions offices across the …showed first 75 words of 860 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 860 total…United States. Segregation is wrong, but affirmative action does not work. Society must change to become more equal, but to force it only causes more problems, especially when it is in violation of our basic rights, as outlined in the Constitution of the United States. Equality of result may have an affect on the surface, but peoples racism will remain. Equality of opportunity may be slower, but in the long run, is much more effective.

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