Affirmative Action

The definition of Affirmative Action sounds like an idea that will help everyone involved in the law, taking positive steps to increase the representation of women and minorities in areas of employment, education, and business. But to be honest, Affirmative Action probably does more harm than good. I understand what Affirmative Action is trying to do. It's so-called giving people an equal chance, particularly minorities. But in essence, it's technically making things more difficult instead for us all. First and foremost are the women. Affirmative action would do women more help in the past verses the present. In the past, it was much more difficult for a woman to own her own business and they were limited on the jobs they could do. As time passed, constitutions were ammended and the way of life in America slowly changed due to that. In today's world, many women already own their own businesses and are working a variety of jobs. In many work places the number of women who are employed are higher than the number of men. So to me, Affirmative Action sometimes gives jobs to women who don't deserve it. If a man and a woman are applying for the same job, and the man will do a better job than the woman, Affirmative Action would give the job to a woman when she is not as skilled at the job as her male counterpart. What if this is a police officer, a doctor, a stock broker, an accountant, because of Affirmative Action we would get less quality out of that particular service. This not only hurts us, but the businesses as well.
As for the minorities, in a way it is helpful because racism still exists today. It is just not as evident as it was in the history of the US. There are still many minorities that do not get employed because of their race when they are perfectly qualified for the job. So in a way Affirmative Action does clean this part of the US up a bit. But again you have to go back to if it's deserving. Does one African American deserve to go to this highly prestigious college despite the fact that a white man of the same age is a far better student than he is. It is also not treating everyone equally because before a college or a workplace can seriously look at employing people or accepting people for their skills, they have to worry about getting the first ten black and asian people into their business or university. So instead of viewing them as intelligent and a person that is very deserving of the job or occupation at a university, they are looked at as a quota to fill. That doesn't jelp anyone, it only hurts us. In a sense I still agree with this part of Affirmative Action because at least it gaurantees some minorities a chance at a job or attending a particularly difficult university to get into. Overall Affirmative Action is not fair at all and it does more harm than good. America is better of without this law as the times of this country has changed. The struggle for the particular group that it tries to help out, although is still evidently there, is not as difficult as it was in the past.