Affirmative Action

Affirmative action is a subject matter based solely upon an attempt at eliminating racial biasing and achieving equality for all through opportunity. Yet, each individual circumstance in which the principles of affirmative action would serve justice should be handled within its own realm. The concepts that a race learns better from their own kind, or gender vis-à-vis, should not be a determining factor in fulfilling a position. This then allows the gender or race in itself to become a quality worth considering for competence and more so proficiency, which further reinforces the discord affirmative action was put in place to eliminate. Consequently, the social concept that the race of a figure or model can affect societies outlook on the adequacies of that racial group must be considered. Simply put, people that fill an esteemed role or position become a representative of their own heritage and culture. For this fact affirmative action can accept morality only under certain variations, which are:

-Ensuring an adequate pool of historically oppressed applicants and

-Giving preferences to historically oppressed applicants if they’re equally qualified with other top candidates, better known as the Tiebreaker model.

Any other alternatives to affirmative action must be denounced due to their unethical behavior. To overlook the quality of an individual in favor of their race, heritage, or culture can and will pass for racial discrimination, regardless of what end of the racial spectrum it is acting on. Affirmative action should not consume any enterprise or industrial entity as its primary concern and should only be considered after all other factors of the employees’ expectations.