Affirmative Action First I would like to make a few statements of what Affirmative Action does: Affirmative action requires (or permits) racial and/or gender quotas to be used in place of merit selection. Affirmative action requires selection of unqualified persons for jobs, schools and commercial contracts. The most common victims of discrimination today are white men. Affirmative action is intended to counter-act the discrimination of the past, not the present; it thus requires today's …
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…equally qualified blacks and Latinos. The American labor market is 45% white males, but over 95% of the top management of our largest corporations are white men. Banks are twice as likely to reject loan applications by black customers compared with equally credit-qualified white applicants.There is a simple explanation for all this-They're all lazy! Employers are not going to hire someone they think is going to slack off and not work hard unless they have to.