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Treating People Fairly Is A Right That Has Been Changed By Affirmative Action.
Each American who has the right to have a job or do work should be treated fairly and equally as if they were the same. The ability to discriminate against people who are qualified should not be a right given to someone. From affirmative action has come many legal documents and Supreme Court cases to try to set things straight. Affirmative action should be illegal and the person who is most qualified for the job should be hired.
The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. All individuals should be treated equally and differences in sex or race should not make them competitors.
All races are created equal and should have the same rights. No one group of people should be favored more if everyone is created the same, and by law have the same rights and freedoms. No one person has more rights than another. No matter what is an individuals color, size, intellect, lifestyle, religion or ethnicity, he or she has the same rights as the next person.
Affirmative action was created 30 years ago for the cure of the underuse of minority and female and humane resources in the workplace. Affirmative action refers to active measures and passive non-discrimination as a means of increasing the recruitment of minorities and, ultimately, ensuring equal employment opportunity. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the most extensive ordinance on civil rights ever enacted in the United States, banning discrimination in employment, voting, public accommodations, public education, and all federally assisted programs. Affirmative action was once a bold synonym for equality of opportunity. In more recent years, though, affirmation action entered the political world as a sinister euphemism for reverse discrimination. (Carlton 19-23)
In 1971, there were seven female city managers, and in 1986 there were well over one hundred. After 1994 there were five hundred and twelve female county or city managers holding office. Even with all the advances made by females in the public eye, they still made an average of seventy cents to every dollar made by their male counterparts. (DaviRABon 1153-1158) When the female does get hired, she is still getting paid less for something a male does for higher wages. Overall, the rights of women have improved considerably over the last century, however they are still not up to the standarRAB of the male. All men are created equal is a statement which applies to everyone including women. If a woman sets her goals to be a working woman and pursues a career in the work force, then she should not be discriminated against. If two people are going for the same job and a male is more qualified than the woman, then the person who will benefit the employer the most should fill the position.
Black men and women have been discriminated against since the beginning of their existence. From the time blacks landed in America in 1619, they had already started to be sold as slaves. By the 17th century, it was clear that all blacks would become slaves and remain slaves for life. By 1850, 92 per cent of all American blacks were concentrated in the South, and of this group approximately 95 per cent of them were slaves. As slaves became angered by being treated unfairly, a nuraber of uprisings appeared as black slaves reached out for the freedom that was rightly theirs. Even as the blacks slowly gained more and more freedom, they still had limited freedom and discrimination was eminent in most social and economic activities as well as in voting and education. After the Reconstruction period from 1865-77, blacks took an active part in all aspects of public life. The passage of the 14th and the 15th Amendments was a very big step in the blacks gaining total freedom. In 1870, 80 per cent of blacks were illiterate, but by 1900 illiteracy among the blacks was reduced by 50 per cent. (Corabs 1992 ed.) The desire of the black race to become working Americans like any other white, red-blooded human being was a natural result of their desire to learn and to be educated. Yet many blacks are now still being discriminated against because of their skin color. Many blacks are very successful because they have worked at it, but a larger percentage are still being turned away because they are black. A black person is not any different than anyone else. They have two eyes, two hanRAB and one heart, the same as everyone else. If a black man is skilled in a profession, it is because he has worked hard, gotten the education the same way a white American has and has paid the price. He should not be turned away because of his skin color.
Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men and women and children entered the United States. In 1905, 06, 07, 10, 13, and 1914, a million more arrived each year. Many arrivals had left their homeland to escape mobs who attacked them because of their ethnicity, religion, or politics. More immigrants arrive illegally and legally today than ever before. They come in ways that are ordinary or desperate, jetting into New York aboard commercial airliners, scrarabling off boats on the Florida shore and trudging into New Mexico across the desert border. What are they looking for? The answer is easy, freedom and a better way of life. Even though most of them are poor, many have spent a few years in school or have acquired some industrial skills on the job, and many speak English. Many people feel that immigrants just over populate our states and take up needed jobs. What many people don’t realize is that the immigrants hard work and dedication is what helped to make America the industrial giant that it is now. (Parker and Romo article 33) After an immigrant obtains citizenship, he or she isn’t any different than me or you. Many immigrants are skilled and can have a positive influence in the workplace. Although they may not have the same color of skin or maybe they speak with an accent that is hard to understand, they just want the same things out of life as everyone else. Someone who feels that they have to hire a certain amount of women, Asians, Mexicans, etc., to meet the Affirmative Action Code may feel that they are doing the right thing, while most people would feel more secure hiring the person who is best for the job no matter what their race or sex.
In March of 1979, the United Steel Workers of America introduced a plan to eliminate conspicuous racial irabalances in their factories. Six white trainees and 7 black trainees were chosen to test out the system. The seven black trainees had fewer qualifications but were given higher seniority than any of the white trainees. Weber, one of the white trainees, spoke out saying that the white trainees were being discriminated against in section 703 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On March 29, 1979, a court case named the United Steel Workers of American V. Weber was brought to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that this action violated Title VII and entered judgment in favor of Weber.
In 1978, affirmative action plans that established racial quotas were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the University of California V. Bakke. A state medical school had set aside sixteen of one hundred positions in each incoming class for minority students, where the institution had not shown signs of discrimination in the past. Two different panels of 5 justices split the case, one for and one against. The final vote was cast by Justice Powell. He felt that neither side of the case was correct. Powell was very interested in a “higher education” and “academic freedom”, a special concern on the First Amendment. Powell felt that the minority students with the same qualifications as any other student should be given the same advantages as anyone else. Powell’s decision to agree with Bakke launched a contemporary debate over state-sponsored affirmative action.
In 1986, a collective bargaining agreement in Jackson, Mississippi, stated that “if it became necessary to lay off teachers, those with the most seniority would be retained, except that at no time will there be a greater percentage of minority personnel laid off than the current percentage of minority personnel employed at the time of the lay off”. (Supreme Court Internet Library #84-1340) After being laid off, petitioner Wygant alleged violations of the Equal Protection Clause and certain State and Federal statues. The District Court upheld the constitutionality of the layoff provision, stating that racial preferences granted by the board need not be grounded on a finding of prior discrimination, but were permissible under the equal Protection Clause as an attempt to remedy discrimination by providing role models for minority children. The court ruled against Wygant.
In the case, Ford V. Georgia (1991), Petitioner Ford, a black man, charged with the murder of a white women, filed a “motion to restrict use of peremptory challenges”, alleging that for a long time the county prosecutor had not had a black jury meraber when the case had involved merabers of the opposite race4. One black juror was picked for the jury. Ford was convicted and given the death penalty. Ford moved for a new trial claiming that his 6th Amendment, the right to an impartial jury, was violated. The motion was denied and Ford’s Supreme Court conviction was affirmed.
1995 brought another case between Aderand Construction, Inc. v. Pena to the Supreme Court. The prime contractor under a Federal Highway construction contract containing a compensation clause, awarded a subcontract to a company that was certified as a small business which hired minorities. Aderand Construction, which submitted a low bid on the same subcontract but was not certified, filed suit against Federal officials, claiming that the compensation clause violated the equal protection component of the 5th Amendment’s due process clause. (Supreme Court Internet Library #93-1841) The Court upheld the constitutionality of the Federal Race-based action under a lenient standard and sent the case back.
Many of these court cases should not even happen. If a company or employer could choose the best person to fill the position in his or her business, instead of trying to please all different races or people he would be better off. The biggest document that states what affirmative action should be about is the Declaration of Independence. The key to that document is the statement that men and races are created equal. Is affirmative action a good opportunity to give everyone equal chance in the work force and in education or does it just restrain the rights of others? One thing that we need to look at is that the ability to keep the war of races equal will never happen. There will always be someone with better skill or a better knowledge that will have an edge over others and race or gender should not be a determining factor. We are so caught up in making sure that the minorities and women get hired that we are actually discriminating against the majority who are qualified for the job. We are not eliminating the discrimination, but just reversing it. While the penalties for not following affirmative action may not be severe, the feeling might be that following it might be penalty enough. By not giving the job to someone who is the most qualified, but rather giving it to a minority or a woman with less skill, may actually punish you by the quality of your business work going into a decline. Politicians in Washington D.C. are in favor of either trying to improve affirmative action or eliminate it all together. Although there has been a great deal of talk in Congress of legislation that would eliminate virtually all Federally sponsored affirmative action, Congress cannot alter voluntary affirmative action in the private sector or state and local government unless merabers of Congress are prepared to rework the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (Caralton 19-23).
Treating people fairly is a right that has been taken away by affirmative action. Each American who has the right to have a job and provide a meaningful contribution to the work force should be treated equally. Affirmative action as it is being practiced today should be illegal and the person who is prepared and qualified for the job should be given the opportunity to work.
Each American who has the right to have a job or do work should be treated fairly and equally as if they were the same. The ability to discriminate against people who are qualified should not be a right given to someone. From affirmative action has come many legal documents and Supreme Court cases to try to set things straight. Affirmative action should be illegal and the person who is most qualified for the job should be hired.
The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. All individuals should be treated equally and differences in sex or race should not make them competitors.
All races are created equal and should have the same rights. No one group of people should be favored more if everyone is created the same, and by law have the same rights and freedoms. No one person has more rights than another. No matter what is an individuals color, size, intellect, lifestyle, religion or ethnicity, he or she has the same rights as the next person.
Affirmative action was created 30 years ago for the cure of the underuse of minority and female and humane resources in the workplace. Affirmative action refers to active measures and passive non-discrimination as a means of increasing the recruitment of minorities and, ultimately, ensuring equal employment opportunity. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the most extensive ordinance on civil rights ever enacted in the United States, banning discrimination in employment, voting, public accommodations, public education, and all federally assisted programs. Affirmative action was once a bold synonym for equality of opportunity. In more recent years, though, affirmation action entered the political world as a sinister euphemism for reverse discrimination. (Carlton 19-23)
In 1971, there were seven female city managers, and in 1986 there were well over one hundred. After 1994 there were five hundred and twelve female county or city managers holding office. Even with all the advances made by females in the public eye, they still made an average of seventy cents to every dollar made by their male counterparts. (DaviRABon 1153-1158) When the female does get hired, she is still getting paid less for something a male does for higher wages. Overall, the rights of women have improved considerably over the last century, however they are still not up to the standarRAB of the male. All men are created equal is a statement which applies to everyone including women. If a woman sets her goals to be a working woman and pursues a career in the work force, then she should not be discriminated against. If two people are going for the same job and a male is more qualified than the woman, then the person who will benefit the employer the most should fill the position.
Black men and women have been discriminated against since the beginning of their existence. From the time blacks landed in America in 1619, they had already started to be sold as slaves. By the 17th century, it was clear that all blacks would become slaves and remain slaves for life. By 1850, 92 per cent of all American blacks were concentrated in the South, and of this group approximately 95 per cent of them were slaves. As slaves became angered by being treated unfairly, a nuraber of uprisings appeared as black slaves reached out for the freedom that was rightly theirs. Even as the blacks slowly gained more and more freedom, they still had limited freedom and discrimination was eminent in most social and economic activities as well as in voting and education. After the Reconstruction period from 1865-77, blacks took an active part in all aspects of public life. The passage of the 14th and the 15th Amendments was a very big step in the blacks gaining total freedom. In 1870, 80 per cent of blacks were illiterate, but by 1900 illiteracy among the blacks was reduced by 50 per cent. (Corabs 1992 ed.) The desire of the black race to become working Americans like any other white, red-blooded human being was a natural result of their desire to learn and to be educated. Yet many blacks are now still being discriminated against because of their skin color. Many blacks are very successful because they have worked at it, but a larger percentage are still being turned away because they are black. A black person is not any different than anyone else. They have two eyes, two hanRAB and one heart, the same as everyone else. If a black man is skilled in a profession, it is because he has worked hard, gotten the education the same way a white American has and has paid the price. He should not be turned away because of his skin color.
Between 1880 and World War I, about 22 million men and women and children entered the United States. In 1905, 06, 07, 10, 13, and 1914, a million more arrived each year. Many arrivals had left their homeland to escape mobs who attacked them because of their ethnicity, religion, or politics. More immigrants arrive illegally and legally today than ever before. They come in ways that are ordinary or desperate, jetting into New York aboard commercial airliners, scrarabling off boats on the Florida shore and trudging into New Mexico across the desert border. What are they looking for? The answer is easy, freedom and a better way of life. Even though most of them are poor, many have spent a few years in school or have acquired some industrial skills on the job, and many speak English. Many people feel that immigrants just over populate our states and take up needed jobs. What many people don’t realize is that the immigrants hard work and dedication is what helped to make America the industrial giant that it is now. (Parker and Romo article 33) After an immigrant obtains citizenship, he or she isn’t any different than me or you. Many immigrants are skilled and can have a positive influence in the workplace. Although they may not have the same color of skin or maybe they speak with an accent that is hard to understand, they just want the same things out of life as everyone else. Someone who feels that they have to hire a certain amount of women, Asians, Mexicans, etc., to meet the Affirmative Action Code may feel that they are doing the right thing, while most people would feel more secure hiring the person who is best for the job no matter what their race or sex.
In March of 1979, the United Steel Workers of America introduced a plan to eliminate conspicuous racial irabalances in their factories. Six white trainees and 7 black trainees were chosen to test out the system. The seven black trainees had fewer qualifications but were given higher seniority than any of the white trainees. Weber, one of the white trainees, spoke out saying that the white trainees were being discriminated against in section 703 of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On March 29, 1979, a court case named the United Steel Workers of American V. Weber was brought to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that this action violated Title VII and entered judgment in favor of Weber.
In 1978, affirmative action plans that established racial quotas were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the University of California V. Bakke. A state medical school had set aside sixteen of one hundred positions in each incoming class for minority students, where the institution had not shown signs of discrimination in the past. Two different panels of 5 justices split the case, one for and one against. The final vote was cast by Justice Powell. He felt that neither side of the case was correct. Powell was very interested in a “higher education” and “academic freedom”, a special concern on the First Amendment. Powell felt that the minority students with the same qualifications as any other student should be given the same advantages as anyone else. Powell’s decision to agree with Bakke launched a contemporary debate over state-sponsored affirmative action.
In 1986, a collective bargaining agreement in Jackson, Mississippi, stated that “if it became necessary to lay off teachers, those with the most seniority would be retained, except that at no time will there be a greater percentage of minority personnel laid off than the current percentage of minority personnel employed at the time of the lay off”. (Supreme Court Internet Library #84-1340) After being laid off, petitioner Wygant alleged violations of the Equal Protection Clause and certain State and Federal statues. The District Court upheld the constitutionality of the layoff provision, stating that racial preferences granted by the board need not be grounded on a finding of prior discrimination, but were permissible under the equal Protection Clause as an attempt to remedy discrimination by providing role models for minority children. The court ruled against Wygant.
In the case, Ford V. Georgia (1991), Petitioner Ford, a black man, charged with the murder of a white women, filed a “motion to restrict use of peremptory challenges”, alleging that for a long time the county prosecutor had not had a black jury meraber when the case had involved merabers of the opposite race4. One black juror was picked for the jury. Ford was convicted and given the death penalty. Ford moved for a new trial claiming that his 6th Amendment, the right to an impartial jury, was violated. The motion was denied and Ford’s Supreme Court conviction was affirmed.
1995 brought another case between Aderand Construction, Inc. v. Pena to the Supreme Court. The prime contractor under a Federal Highway construction contract containing a compensation clause, awarded a subcontract to a company that was certified as a small business which hired minorities. Aderand Construction, which submitted a low bid on the same subcontract but was not certified, filed suit against Federal officials, claiming that the compensation clause violated the equal protection component of the 5th Amendment’s due process clause. (Supreme Court Internet Library #93-1841) The Court upheld the constitutionality of the Federal Race-based action under a lenient standard and sent the case back.
Many of these court cases should not even happen. If a company or employer could choose the best person to fill the position in his or her business, instead of trying to please all different races or people he would be better off. The biggest document that states what affirmative action should be about is the Declaration of Independence. The key to that document is the statement that men and races are created equal. Is affirmative action a good opportunity to give everyone equal chance in the work force and in education or does it just restrain the rights of others? One thing that we need to look at is that the ability to keep the war of races equal will never happen. There will always be someone with better skill or a better knowledge that will have an edge over others and race or gender should not be a determining factor. We are so caught up in making sure that the minorities and women get hired that we are actually discriminating against the majority who are qualified for the job. We are not eliminating the discrimination, but just reversing it. While the penalties for not following affirmative action may not be severe, the feeling might be that following it might be penalty enough. By not giving the job to someone who is the most qualified, but rather giving it to a minority or a woman with less skill, may actually punish you by the quality of your business work going into a decline. Politicians in Washington D.C. are in favor of either trying to improve affirmative action or eliminate it all together. Although there has been a great deal of talk in Congress of legislation that would eliminate virtually all Federally sponsored affirmative action, Congress cannot alter voluntary affirmative action in the private sector or state and local government unless merabers of Congress are prepared to rework the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (Caralton 19-23).
Treating people fairly is a right that has been taken away by affirmative action. Each American who has the right to have a job and provide a meaningful contribution to the work force should be treated equally. Affirmative action as it is being practiced today should be illegal and the person who is prepared and qualified for the job should be given the opportunity to work.