I do not think affirmative action has affected white males at all, because they are majority. ... I sampled twenty people varying in race, age, and gender. ... None of the people I asked refused to take the survey. ... While in contrast the majority or white male felt the opposite. ... One fabrication of minorities stealing all white men's jobs is false. ...
Most people would imagine all minorities love affirmative action and strongly voted for it and that's why it passed. ... Yes, a group of white men! ... Well, we too are angry white males. ... They believe that the passage of this proposition will encourage a healthy competition for jobs, and that it will cause people to strive harder to do their best. ... Is it only the white man that su...
By singling out minorities as the only people that affirmative action applies to, you are discriminating against them from the start. ... People should be considered as individuals and not members of a different race. ... Another counter argument to the abolition of affirmative action is that minorities for the most part are brought up in poor neighborhoods and therefore their education is not as good as most of the white people whose income level is higher and subsequently have better schools. ... The percentage of white students accepted by Berkeley totaled 36.8 percent. ... People thr...
Racism is a far less an issue then one many people may think. ... There are many reasons why people are starting to realize the downside of racial quotas, and beginning to appeal them more often. ... It is wrong for the government to favor blacks and other minorities because they are not white. ... "But the additional claim - that campuses will become "lily white" - is inaccurate. ... I believe that many people take advantage of schools and jobs, and are accepted to a certain school or for a certain job when someone with much higher credentials are turned down just because they are white. ...
Interaction allows students to learn that persons of the opposite race are people too, more or less like themselves. ... Individuals who benefit from affirmative action must achieve academic excellence relative to other people with similar backgrounds. ... The constitution says we must treat all people equally but the affirmative action treats some people unequally, actually more equally. ... Whites who work harder and or are more qualified can be passed over strictly because they are white. ... Or when applying for a job, if there are two men with the exact same qualifications on white and on...
In this era anyone that was not a white male was discriminated against on a regular basis. ... This in effect not only hurts the white citizens, but also any United States born minorities. ... It was designed to make right what white Americans had done wrong for so many years, and to bring the women and minorities to the equal power in which they were entitled. ... This will also help to prevent people from abusing the powers of the plan while eliminating the threat of unintended use. ... Affirmative action is the right of some people in the United States, but without regulating the use of it ...
Of course, this vocal minority is not challenging traditional forms of preference and discrimination that favor the rich, the educated, white people and men. ... With years of change and constant focus, we as a people continue to find ways to bridge the gap and level the playing field in a much larger vineyard. But there are still thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmativ...
Research has shown, however, that affirmative action "has been an important policy for improving the economic status of people of color and White women" (Konrad, 429). ... The truth is that "for decades black unemployment has been about twice that of white unemployment" (Feagin, 258). ... This is one of many reasons that some people argue that affirmative action lowers standards. ... This view suggests that white men have "indeed paid a price for some affirmative action programs" (Feagin, 28). ... Other people argue that the ratio of white to black students should stay disproportionate in ...
It became most noticeable in the 1960's civil rights movement that was designed to break down the barriers of segregation and exclusion against people of minority status. People of minority status encompassed a broad spectrum of individuals. ... But as the basis for imposing discriminatory legal remedies that work against innocent people, societal discrimination is insufficient and overexpansive. ... Even locally we have seen two cases surface where white students in grade school have been the victims of affirmative action discrimination and exclusion from public schools. ... David Su...
Many people feel strongly either for or against affirmative action in the workplace. ... America is no longer just black, white or brown, but is now made up of an increasing interracial population. ... They argue that these people come from areas where they are not afforded the same opportunities as their white counterparts. ... White counterparts feel that their minority co-workers were hired based solely on their race. ... What I find interesting in my research is that there are many, many arguments and a lot of people who feel strongly one way or the other. ...
Instead, white people and black people were both the same neutral skin color.... " The so called, "minority slot," is a hiring practice that only allows people of color to compete against other people of color for a spot. ... "The resulting argument is that affirmative action programs create 'reverse discrimination' against white males," (Jackson.) ... Another example was presented in a 2003 Supreme Court case when two white applicants were rejected from the University of Michigan. ... " Because minorities are indeed given preferential treatment just be...
The laws" intent was to afford underprivileged minority groups" equal opportunities for employment that were available to the white male. ... Many decades ago it was very evident that black people had a difficult time landing jobs. ... President Lyndon Johnson executed the added edge to expand the rights of black people and initiated the Civil Rights Law of 1964. ... We are now seeing more women, white and black primarily, black men and even the American native Indian in the American workplace. ... Forcing the hand of the white men in America to ...
Consider an investment firm whose clientele consists solely of older white males. It may very well be in the firm's best interests to have a workforce consisting of older white males. Yet most would think it completely unjust for such a firm to give preferential treatment to a less qualified older white male over a black applicant. ... In his attempt to make a libertarian case for affirmative action, Valls believes that the practice is justified based upon past injustices towards a particular group of people. ... Of the applications mailed out, those with traditionally ethnic names ar...
Since the 1950s, the female-to-male earnings gap has hovered around 60%: in 2001, for every dollar earned by a white man, white women earned 73 cents, African American women 63 cents, and Latinas 53 cents. ... However, 95% of Fortune 500 CEOs are still white men. ... For example, Finnish people are seen as inferior in Sweden, and perform poorly on tests there; however, they perform well on tests in Australia, where they are not discriminated against. ... "For every dollar white male managers in the private sector earn, white women managers earn 59 cents, men-of-color managers earn 75 cen...
Since minorities had not the advantages to better public schooling, there were few equally or more qualified then white males. ... Currently the US population is 77.9% white and 12.9 % black, yet the unemployment rate is 5.1 for whites, while its 10.7 for blacks. Statistically, if affirmative action is ever successful, 80% of the company would be white, 13 % black, and 7% other minorities. ... With these plans comes the consequence of not promoting or hiring more qualified white males. ... In the process, many white firefights were passed up for advancement as less qualified, sometimes much l...
In a time when it is en vogue to push the issue of cultural diversity, many people feel that they are unjustly being excluded because they are not a racial minority. ... In the beginnings, Affirmative Action was absolutely necessary in order to allow minorities the opportunity to operate on a level playing field with their white counterparts. ... The University would have to provide something more concrete to support their stance of selecting a less-qualified minority student over a more-qualified white student. ... Of course, we are fully aware of the good intentions of Affirmative Action as...
Providing opportunities for people of all backgrounds is the right thing to do from an ethical standpoint. ... The difference, the client said, was that the firm had no diversity on its sales team; every member was a middle-aged white male. The winning firm, by contrast, had white males, women and minorities at every negotiating session. ... But it was a US company run primarily by white males. Those white males, however, valued equal opportunity. ...
The British Nationality Act of 1948 allowed citizens of the Commonwealth to settle in Britain and facilitated a new era in which most of the migrants were "coloured" people. ... Their aspirations to integrate ensured more contact with the white community than was experienced by the Asian community. ... Furthermore, the unemployment rate for black (Caribbean, African and other) and Pakistani/Bangladeshi male workers was three times higher than the rate of white workers. An in 1997, black men earned 82% of the white median rate of pay while Pakistani/Bangladeshi men earned only 55% of the whit...
They insist that any discrimination is wrong, and people shouldn't be restricted by their ancestor's wrongdoing. ... In the past, African Americans were consistently seen as less capable then their white counterparts. ... Diversity also creates a better learning and work environment for everyone, as many people are not exposed to the multitude of views that come from minority minds (Messeril). ... They argue that people should not be punished for the wrongs written by their ancestors centuries before they were alive. It should also be considered that the white male was not born a w...
People of all races were divided upon the issue, as they still are today. ... Allan Blake, a white medical school applicant, claimed that he had been discriminated against by the University of California's admissions program. ... Bakke charged that he had been rejected only because he was white. People of all throughout the country protested Bakke's claim of reverse discrimination. ... When elected President, Bill Clinton gave the American people what they wanted, a white house staff that "looked like America." ...
Minorities had long been imposed to prejudice, especially from the greater white population. However the Brown decision failed to cease many white advantages and professional supremacies; "it merely allowed Blacks to enter the arena of competition," (Greenberg 300)." ... A common complaint surrounding affirmative action policies aimed at serving minorities, specifically African Americans, is that they violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution by depriving white males of equal protection under the law (Greenberg 100). ... For example, the Northern Natural Gas Company of Omaha, Nebras...
Minorities had long been imposed to prejudice, especially from the greater white population. However the Brown decision failed to cease many white advantages and professional supremacies; "it merely allowed Blacks to enter the arena of competition," (Greenberg 300)." ... A common complaint surrounding affirmative action policies aimed at serving minorities, specifically African Americans, is that they violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution by depriving white males of equal protection under the law (Greenberg 100). ... For example, the Northern Natural Gas Company of Omaha, Nebras...
Affirmative action, enforced at universities and in various occupations, appears unfair and unequal to middle-class, white Americans. ... Allan Bakke stated that fixed quotas could not be set for minority applicants to a college or university while simultaneously denying white applicants a chance to compete for these places. ... In broad terms, many people feel that while affirmative action has a worthy purpose in terms of diversification of employees and university attendees, affirmative action ultimately does not achieve this end. ... Author Nicolaus Mills contention, "The white college...
Affirmative action, enforced at universities and in various occupations, appears unfair and unequal to middle-class, white Americans. ... Allan Bakke stated that fixed quotas could not be set for minority applicants to a college or university while simultaneously denying white applicants a chance to compete for these places. ... In broad terms, many people feel that while affirmative action has a worthy purpose in terms of diversification of employees and university attendees, affirmative action ultimately does not achieve this end. ... Author Nicolaus Mills contention, "The white college...
Only 60 percent of Latino kids in middle school will be placed into 8th grade algebra versus the 95 percent of white kids of the same age group. ... Since they aren't employed, many people are relying on welfare programs to get by. In 2013, there are 12.8 million people on welfare in the United States, of which 39.8 percent are black and 15.7 percent are Hispanic (Welfare Statistics). Even though 38.8 percent of people on welfare are white, when thinking of welfare, it is a common stereotype to picture a black family with one or two parents that don't work. ... Johnson called for A...
