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Affirmative Action
Title: Affirmative Action
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1564 | Pages: 6.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is an attempt by the United States to amend a long history of racial and sexual discrimination. But these days it seems to incite, not ease, the nations internal divisions. Opponents of affirmative action say that the battle for equal rights is over, and that requiring quotas that favor one group over another is un-American. The people that defend it say that the playing field is not level, and that providing …showed first 75 words of 1564 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1564 total…doubtful. Although I am a young white male who may in some cases be a victim of this "reverse discrimination", I believe affirmative action policies are essential in this country. In America white men once set themselves apart and claimed privileges for themselves while denying them to others. Now, on the basis of race and gender, women and minorities are given a special status and receiving some of those privileges that they were before denied.
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