Has Affirmative Action Outlived Its Usefuleness?

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HAS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS

Affirmative action was put in place several decades ago . Today many people in the American society thinks that it has been outlived . The reason behind this are not are clear to scores of minority communities as yet affirmative action has not attained its goals . It may be argued that many people against the affirmative action have lost the meaning and goals for which it was formulated . Besides , the

opponents to it would also like to perpetuate similar vices which were committed past regimes

At deeper look of the understanding of affirmative action , it unveils that affirmative action was formulated as away of compensation of the unfair treatment which were committed in the past intentionally or unintentionally by the past administration . In this matter , affirmative action was legislated during 1960s through the effort of civil rights movement to correct the disparities that was and is overt even today between the minorities and the whites as result of discrimination coupled with slavery and tyranny (Gaines and Miller , 2008

The civil rights movement saw that the minority were languishing in suffering in their own democratic states due the infliction of the past After the declaration of independence in the American states segregation and discrimination against the minority groups such as African American , Hispanic , Asians and others was cultured . This made many people from the minority groups to live in...