I believe Affirmative Action is ludicrous and should never be accounted when hiring, or accepting someone into a school or business. It is very unethical to judge someone on gender,race, ethnicity before hiring them or accepting them. After reading the different articles on Affirmative Action there were a couple spectrum's that I did and didn't agree with. I do think that the past "White mans" action were pitiful and embarrassing especially for me who is white and having to hear about the horrors that white people did to African Americans. With that being said woman were treated like toys with no brains as well by the "White Man". This awful part of our history to me is like an ex boyfriend who was awful. I think it's best to leave it in the past. I think it will always be taught and part of our history but when it comes to the job force or schools today I don't think a white boy fresh out of college that he perhaps paid for himself should get less recognition because he is white because someone in his ancestry that he didn't even know existed. All races and all genders should be looked at by more than that. They should be noticed for their personalities, their charisma, and their people skills. Equality could be ours if we just worked as a species to put the hate away and start fresh. Unfortunately that statement isn't realistic in the world we live in today. Racism is still alive and hate is still alive. I think to help create a work force and education system without these discriminatory acts government officials or school and labor groups need to set up rules and maybe perhaps background checks into the application processes to make sure someone wasn't given a job for the wrong reasons. Point of this is that I think all jobs need to have all different types of people male and female and of all different sorts of ethnicity  This would help hiring and accepting candidates without being as bias as a job force with a prominent selection of one race or one gender.