Give 5 reasons why we shouldn't have Affirmative Action.?

Answer 1

1. Places race over qualifications, thusly further promoting racism
2. Contributes to inefficency
3. Causes work place animosity
4. It demeans true minority achievement
5. It is condensending to minorities
6. It lowers standards of accountablity
7. It is patently unjust
8. It is illegal. (promoting/hiring/admitting based on race only)
9. Affirmative Action has become about revenge.
10. It flys in the face of, and prohibits true multiculturalism.
11. You can not cure discrimination with discrimination.
12. It is government sanctioned and sponsored racism
13. It encourages non-protected people to classify themselves as protected class memebers.

The Economist Thomas Sowell stated the following:
They reduce the incentives of both the preferred and non-preferred to perform at their best — the former because doing so is unnecessary and the latter because it can prove futile — thereby resulting in net losses for society as a whole. What about the notion that affirmative action has helped blacks rise out of poverty? The black poverty rate was cut in half before affirmative action — and has barely changed since then.

"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (August 28, 1963)

Answer 2

I disagree with you asking for 5 reasons. I'll give you one.
We now have 2nd and 3rd generation professionals that are benefitting from affirmative action. The sons and daughters of the wealthy and highly educated can, and do, use affirmative action to gain advange. It's time to allow the content of one's character and not the color of one's skin determine everyone's position in this supposed Meritocracy.

Answer 3

1. It can keep the most qualified person from getting the job.
2. The person that does get the job, regardless of how well qualified, will always carry the stigma of "they were given the job because they were a minority".
3. Government interference in private enterprise can only have disastrous results.
4. I'm a white man in a city that's 70% black. Does that make me the minority now?
5. Racial or gender bias in any direction is still racial or gender bias. Until everyone is on EQUAL footing, there will never be EQUALITY.

Answer 4

1. If the US Constitution is read to outlaw racial discrimination then it must outlaw ALL racial discrimination.
2. Who gets to pick which minorities get the goods?
3. What percentage of ***** genes must be in a person for him/her to be considered ***** enough to qualify?
4. Will the powers who set the racial quotas also set them to correct ALL racial imbalances in ALL areas? Will there ever be a racial quota for the NBA? HeadStart? The various government-subsidized organizations fronted by the NAACP and similar groups?
5. Will there be a national registry by race to insure we round up and count and identify ALL the minorities?

Answer 5

1. It's racist against whites
2. It asserts that have 40 years of preferential treatment in educations minorities are still unable to complete scholastically
3. It promotes racism
4. It goes against the equal right amendment
5. It causes further separation amongst races.

Answer 6

1. It is nothing more than reverse racism
2. People do not gain employment based on ability, only race
3. It tells the youth of minorities that they do not have to work hard to become gainfully emplyed...only a minority.
4. It divides people and causes racism that wasn't there to begin with.
5. When a minority is successful people think they only became so because of A A

Answer 7

I support affirmative action, because black people were denied access to schooling, good jobs, and even personal safety BY LAW. It was not prejudice alone that hurt the descendants of America's slaves. It was that the laws of the land enforced second class citizenship on them. Therefore, redress is necessary.

40 acres and a mule is a promise broken. The schools that exist to serve America's black children are still, by and large, a promise broken. Despite building this country with their blood and bone for no pay, despite today paying taxes and very high prices for basic commodities, the schools are still designed to not prepare their children well for life. Therefore, if a kid wants to go to college and can't make the test scores that kids who went to awesome schools can, let's look at his past experiences in life and see if he merits further consideration of his application based on those past experiences.

At this point, I feel class would be a better qualifying issue for Affirmative Action than race.

No one feels they succeed because of affirmative action - that's a stupid lie. They only feel they got a chance because of affirmative action - they still have to prove themselves.

Answer 8

1.it spawns even more racism
2. it leads to quota filling instead of qualifying individuals getting the job
3. schools are filled with curriculm and scholorships for minorities, but leaves little aid for the white peolpe who need it
4. because it prevents the blacks from bettering their selves.
5. Makes a new group of previleged people and makes them dependant upon it.

Answer 9

I agree with Haleiwa Bound. If people want to be treated equal then lets treat everyone equal.

Answer 10

1. It is unfair.
2. It is unfair.
3. It is unfair.
4. It is unfair.
5. It is unfair.