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Affirmative Action: Does it positively affect our society?

Affirmative action today, is considered to be one of the most controversial dilemmas
facing our equal status of individual rights. As we all know, affirmative action was implemented
with the idea and hope that America would finally become truly equal. So far, it has lasted for
thirty years and has failed to solve any of our current problems concerning equal rights.
Affirmative action was created with the intention of using reverse discrimination to solve the
problem of discrimination. In that, in some cases minority groups are being chosen over other
fully qualified workers who are not in the minority. This reversal of roles in racial discrimination
does nothing but cause arguments and problems for both those for white males and those in the
minority.
In the United States a process called Affirmative Action is used to help to overcome the
affects of past societal discrimination by granting jobs and resources to members of specific
groups, such as min...

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