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Affirmative Action
The driving force behind affirmative action was set about from past and present experiences of discrimination that has had an unfair course to many minorities throughout the ages of American history. Most critiques of affirmative action believe that different races outside of the white race and women are placed in a position that he or she has not earned and is not ready for. To encourage private and public institutions including, but not limited to higher education facilities, medical hospitals, and law enforcement to be a better liaison of the minority society. To accomplish this a course of action will have to be put into place by targeting recruitment programs geared towards minorities from non-social, and political groups who are at a disadvantage. In what follows I will briefly give an overview of what affirmative action stands for, give many justifications for affirmative action, and why it should be in place.
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