Affirmative action efforts were on track in 1964 to stop the extensive past of neglecting competent citizens of color and women from advanced schooling. Affirmative action establishes principles for a business or office of admissions, so that a white man does not have the ascendancy over an evenly or greater educated minority. The preliminary method the government tried to rationalize affirmative action was to develop a human resource approach: primarily recognizing the dilemma, which is racism …
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…and a theory, but equality as a result." Maybe the world hasn't exactly found equality as a result, but with affirmative action, the world is a lot closer to equality than without it. Reference: www.vote96.ss.ca.gov, Proposition 209 from the California Ballot Pamphlet. www.nara.gov, National Archives and Record Administration. Search: affirmative action www.seamonkey.ed.asu.edu, "Minorities Feel the Pain of Affirmative Action Bans." Peter Applebome. July 1997. New York Times.