Affirmative Action

      In my eyes I believe that Affirmative Action was a great idea and was a helpful way to up lift our society. When it was first put into play programs were set to overcome the effects of past social discrimination by setting up jobs and resources to members of specific groups. To me Affirmative Action is immoral because I believe everyone on this earth should have a fair chance at life and receiving jobs and getting accepted to college not by race nor their finical stability. Who is to say a group of people are better than another or anyone else just because of race or ethnicity. I would say Affirmative Action is important to help people that really need it the most and help them, but it should never necessarily apply to specific group of people like it did in the pass because that’s just immoral and unfair. Everyone struggles and has a time in their life where they need help and may need an opportunity to prove to themselves that their capable of helping themselves. So therefore, Affirmative Action should no longer exist. It was great for that point in time when it was needed, but times have changed and so have people to some extent. There is no need for a group of specific people get a job or accepted into a public or private university based on the color of their skin. We do not choose the way we are born it’s just  a certain way god wanted us to be and that’s just how life falls into place just accepting who and what you are black, hispanic, or white. The people who go and apply for the job should be qualified based on their abilities and not what race or gender they are. Allowing the less qualified people to get the position is really not efficient our society because by doing that were just hurting ourselves and it’s immoral. It would make most sense to give the job to to the most qualified applicant based on ability and what they have to bring to the table not race or gender. Even though Affirmative Action helped people in the past it can also hurt people through reverse discrimination, which is discrimination against whites or males as in employment or education (Webster). It’s immoral and a form of discrimination to tell somebody they can’t be hired based off the color or being a female, their being discriminated before they are even interviewed let alone tested for the job. It’s just immoral to hire a person just based on looks and not brains or qualifications. Everyone has to be given a chance to prove their worthy in this world. It is immoral giving a job to a person less qualified for example, two guys are applying for the same job position (one white and the other black). The white guy has no experience in the field what so ever, he dropped out of high school and never got his GED. The black guy graduated from high school and college he has experience in the field and he’s qualified, but instead they hire the white guy because it’s said that they believe he has the potential to further the company’s success while the well qualified guy is told he is over qualified and the spot is filled. The way it should be is anybody and everybody should have a fair chance at any job or educational. It’s unjust for anyone who struggled when they grow to be denied any opportunity that comes their way. The times have changed and in this present day Affirmative Action is not helping society thrive it’s hurting it. Even though there’s still discrimination among people the Affirmative Action Act is not helping the cause one bit.