Do We Still Need Affirmative Action?

Do We Still Need Affirmative Action?

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King spoke these words in 1963, and they still resonate today. Affirmative action programs were established to create this very type of equality, but have they brought us closer to Dr. King’s dream or hindered it?

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The Changing Demographics Call for Affirmative Action

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Despite the challenges brought by Ward Connerly and the Right Wing, affirmative action will continue to be necessary because of the nation’s changing demographics and to need to include these human resources for the sake of our domestic interests and international competitiveness.

The Census Bureau calculates that by 2042, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander will together outnumber non-Hispanic whites. Diversity strategies (including affirmative action) will be essential to integrate all of these segments of society, from the entry level to the executive suite, in government as well as the private sector.   Affirmative action will continue to be important as a means to promote representation and to manage effectively increasingly diverse employees in the workplace.  Affirmative action and diversity programs will also be needed to admit an increasingly diverse group of qualified and talented students into institutions of higher education.

While discrimination continues to exist, its antidote, Affirmative Action, will be necessary: for inclusion and prevention and to remedy the effects of past discrimination.

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