Affirmative Action

Affirmative action has been controversial since the day it was first referenced, March 6, 1961, by President JFK issuing Executive Order 10925 (Infoplease.com). Affirmative action is race and gender neutral assurance against discrimination. The intended effects of President Johnson’s enforcement of affirmative action were to eliminate discrimination and ensure equality for all races/sexes when applying for jobs, admissions, or promotions. However, it became apparent by the late 70’s that what was actually evolving was reverse racism; meaning that minorities defined under affirmative action were given preferential treatment due to their minority characteristics.
The most famous example of the corrupted version of affirmative action is the Bakke case in 1978. Bakke was a white applicant who had been denied two years in a row by a medical school who had accepted less-qualified minority applicants. The medical school had an admissions policy that reserved 16 out of 100 place...