is it possible to get an UNBIASED TRUE history of affirmative action? or am I asking for the impossible??
2007-11-13 15:48:50 · 6 answers · asked by Allergic To Eggs 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Bioprof: You seem to know your stuff. Why don't you share with me? How about emailing me?
2007-11-13 17:19:49 · update #1
Not today! Fifty years from now, probably! Too much emotion attached to the subject.
2007-11-14 03:26:29 · answer #1 · answered by Pinyon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the US Supreme Court found that discrimination based on race was unconstitutional, something had to be done to reverse the severe social disadvantages that blacks and other minorities experienced even after the laws changed. Thus, the Court stated that governments had to take "affirmative actions" to help achieve true equality for all races, especially in areas/industries with histories of discrimination.
Ironically, such measures by definition discriminate against whites, but the Court (and most of the country) acknowledges that short-term temporary discrimination against whites may be necessary in certain situations to achieve permanent equality in the long run. As discrimination in a certain industry diminishes, the need for (and legality of) affirmative action also decreases.
2007-11-14 01:47:40 · answer #2 · answered by phab_4 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
history is written by the winners in any given event. The history of affirmative action is maintained by the politically correct and therefore you will not get to see all of the warts and inequities created by it. Of course you will get all of the positives outlined in great detail. Such is the way of the world.
2007-11-14 00:12:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
All of history is a matter of perspective. The trick is to listen to more than one account of the same story and apply your own little grey cells to determine where the truth may lie.
Not easy to do, as your own perspective will creep in there too.
2007-11-13 23:59:57 · answer #4 · answered by raichasays 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Depends on who you ask. Don't ask anyone and do the research yourself, sure you could find it. Ask the right person, sure you might get the truth. Ask on here, dude, you asked the one place that will not provide you with the right answer.
2007-11-13 23:57:31 · answer #5 · answered by E M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so.
2007-11-14 01:27:44 · answer #6 · answered by flowwer_1371 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋