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Support for Affirmative Action Programs
Title: Support for Affirmative Action Programs
Category: Society & Culture
Details: Words: 847 | Pages: 3.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Support for Affirmative Action Programs
Affirmative-Action Programs
- Initiatives aimed at encouraging diversity in classrooms and workplaces, and increasing opportunities for minorities and women.
People against affirmative-action programs say:
It encourages discrimination against whites and men (so-called reverse discrimination).
It's no longer necessary for diversity in the classroom and workplace.
It takes opportunities away from more qualified applicants.
Support for Affirmative Action Programs
In a 1965 commencement speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., President Lyndon Johnson discussed the importance of …showed first 75 words of 847 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 847 total…my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen.
24. I can be sure that if I need legal or medical help my race will not work against me.
25. If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.
26. I can choose blemish cover or bandages in "flesh" color that more or less matches my skin.
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