EQUAL CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY

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January 31, 2017

 

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Affirmative action is defined as "sweeping measures by the federal government to help bring about the economic improvement of the African Americans and, later, that of other minority groups" (Marger, 282). The original intention of affirmative action was to compensate previously discriminated Americans, mainly African Americans, and ensure that all past harms and any future harm ceased...
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Unfortunately, since the beginning of affirmative action, it was primarily intended to benefit blacks, the majority of the "minority and women-owned businesses favored by government preferences are owned by groups other than blacks" (Sowell, 121). Could this whole policy be considered a hypocritical hypothesis in the sense that here the government of America is intending to create a program that is meant to solelyncie benefit the racially discriminated blacks who are living in America, and yet at the same time, the very program that the United States government proposed wasn't even benefiting blacks, but women and other minorities of America...
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