Project Part 3 - Final

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Please write a 1000 word final paper (two sources from outside of the class materials are required; the source you used for your Rough Draft counts as one.) Elaborate upon the history of the social problem you chose for your Week 3 Rough Draft (you may use what you already wrote for your Rough Draft as part of your Final), discuss and analyze the agendas of some of the individuals and groups involved, discuss potential future consequences related to this situation.

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Running head: PROJECT PART 2 - ROUGH DRAFT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT RISK Name Date School Instructor Name 1 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT RISK 2 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT RISK Affirmative action is a policy whose prime aim is to improve education and workplace opportunities for groups of people who have historically been excluded, like women and minorities. This policy initiative is usually employed by government organizations or companies by considering the race, religion, nationality, caste, and sex to extend education or employment opportunities for citizens thought to be underprivileged (Pedrick & Scham, 2018). In the 1600s to the 1800s, African Americans were brought to America as slaves. Until 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves through Emancipation Proclamation, most African American people had no education, no freedom, no land, no money, and no opportunities. Discriminatory laws and rampant racism made it difficult for any African American to improve their lives. For nearly 100 years after Lincoln’s proclamation, exclusion policies continued. After years of racial unrest and political turmoil that saw leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. fight for the achievement of equality and racial justice, President John F. Kennedy responded by signing an executive order in response to the Civil Rights movement. The executive order was a statement that ordered government contractors to take ‘affirmative action’ to make sure they hired and maintained employees regardless of their national origin or race. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed another executive order which built upon Kennedy’s law which prohibited discrimination on employment by race by any company receiving contracts or subcontracts from the federal government. Johnson reasoned that freedom wasn’t enough and that all citizens deserved the ability to walk through the gates of opportunity opened to them. In 1967, President Johnson expanded the order to prohibit sexual discrimination and required companies to expand opportunities of employment to minorities and women. Several AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT RISK 3 colleges and Universities followed Johnson’s order and started creating affirmative action policies to increase enrollment of minority and female students (Pedrick & Scham, 2018). Women movements, civil rights movements, political parties, and others have always actively had a deep involvement in the affirmative action conversation. Women movements advocate for equal treatment of women in society on a wide range of aspects from education to employment opportunities to discrimination in politics, etc. civil rights movements aim towards the creation of an environment that gives rights of equal co-existence in society. Political parties through politics always try to give women and minorities an equal opportunity to participate and get elected to office to serve. It is, however, worth noting that there are those who are against affirmative action because it gives opportunities to people who are unqualified simply because they come from protected groups (Lapenson, 2009). The common denominator for all these parties is the demand for social equity and the need to have diversity and equal representation in all aspects of society and life. Focusing on higher education, AA is at risk of being eliminated by challengers, including our current president who feel that race should not be a considered factor in the college or university admissions (Green, Apuzzo, & Benner, 2018). Claims made are that affirmative action is a form of reverse racism affecting individuals belonging to a non-black race. Some Asians have now joined in the dispute with Caucasians in the debate/fight to get rid of this equal right policy. These individuals are trying to make it seem that they are victims of AA and are not giving all the facts regarding why someone would be denied admission into a college or university. In every occasion, those accepted to attend college have great GPA’s, have volunteered in their community – shown evidence of giving back to their community/helping others, and their goals/ideas stood out more. Applying to college or a university can be compared to interviewing for job with a AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT RISK 4 Fortune 500 company – Only the best or those who have great potential are offered a job; or a seat in class of a college/university. Affirmative action has been with us for long, and the debate about its continuity or abolition continues. Through its policies, more women and minorities have got opportunities that they would otherwise not get if affirmative action didn’t exist. The future of this action doesn’t look clear since the debate pitting qualifications for opportunities against protected individuals rages on. From a positive view, the future seems to gain from diversity achieved through affirmative action. However, the counterproductivity of this action might affect the future negatively by having unqualified people in sectors of employment and education at the expense of qualified and deserving individuals who come from non-protected groups. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT RISK 5 References Green, E. L., Apuzzo, M., & Benner, K. (2018, July 03). Trump Officials Reverse Obama's Policy on Affirmative Action in Schools. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-raceschools.html Lapenson, B. P. (2009). Affirmative action and the meanings of merit. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Pedrick, K. W., & Scham, S. (2018). Inside affirmative action: The executive order that transformed America's workforce.
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Introduction
Freedom and equality are the cornerstones of peace and harmony in society. Equal
treatment of people irrespective of their age, race, sex, ethnicity, religion, status, etc. enhances a
prosperous society due to the fact that each and every individual has an equal opportunity to excel
in whichever field. The education and employment opportunities would be available to all and the
available resources would be distributed equitably. The freedom, equality, and human rights that
we enjoy today were realized through a long struggle by the great leaders who had humanity in
them. Those leaders were against discrimination, oppression, and violation of human rights and
they had a big dream of changing the whole world.

History of the social problem
The discrimination against people based on gender and race in the United States can be
traced back to the colonial period. In the 17th century, many Africans were kidnapped from their
homelands and brought to the United States as slaves because they were regarded as inferior as
compared with the Whites. They were forced to work in large farms as laborers without any pay.
The slaves worked in the plantations for long hours under supervision. Most of them were
whipped, beaten tortured and even hinged in front of their colonial white masters ("Slavery in
America", 2018). Some of them including women and children ...


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