Why Is Affirmative Action Necessary
Affirmative action is still necessary because it was affective for helping minorities, it has the potential to start ending poverty, and bring the lower class to the middle class. When John F. Kennedy signed the Executive Order 10925, it begin a change for diversity in employment and education. This order was very effective to help races such African-Americans and Latinos find jobs and go to college who have been discriminated in the past. This action was very necessary at the time, but quickly leveled out diversity so much that today universities will turn down a specific race to level out even if a person has a higher academics. There is no need for race-based affirmative action in America anymore. The U.S needs to focus on changing affirmative
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This is why Affirmative Action is so important but needs to be changed for economic classes. “He found that the most selective schools, instead of affirmative action, began using socioeconomic preferences, including family income and whether students were the first in their family to go to college. And in doing so, about 20 percent of the loss in minority admissions rates at Berkeley and 30 percent at UCLA were offset by changes in the admissions process” (Camera). This information proves that we can start making changes to the Affirmative Action plan to give people who are the first generation college students a better chance of getting in, impacting poverty as a whole for all races. Affirmative action has done its work for shaping a diverse country, but this does not mean it should go away entirely. The impact it has had in America can easily be changed to impact it again in a way where we need it today. Bringing up are lower economic classes is in are nations best interests if we want fair opportunity for everyone. Regardless of race, the rich are becoming richer from these unbalances leaving others behind to struggle. A simple change of action can be taken to help the poor get out of
This is why Affirmative Action is so important but needs to be changed for economic classes. “He found that the most selective schools, instead of affirmative action, began using socioeconomic preferences, including family income and whether students were the first in their family to go to college. And in doing so, about 20 percent of the loss in minority admissions rates at Berkeley and 30 percent at UCLA were offset by changes in the admissions process” (Camera). This information proves that we can start making changes to the Affirmative Action plan to give people who are the first generation college students a better chance of getting in, impacting poverty as a whole for all races. Affirmative action has done its work for shaping a diverse country, but this does not mean it should go away entirely. The impact it has had in America can easily be changed to impact it again in a way where we need it today. Bringing up are lower economic classes is in are nations best interests if we want fair opportunity for everyone. Regardless of race, the rich are becoming richer from these unbalances leaving others behind to struggle. A simple change of action can be taken to help the poor get out of