Have you ever wondered what effect discrimination laws and diversity have on our American society today as a whole? The issue of affirmative action has been a highly controversial topic since it's origin in the mid-1960s. "It began as a program to "correct" the past discrimination by temporarily "favoring" individuals whose "classification" had been victimized in the past." It increased opportunities for minorities by favoring them in hiring and promotion, the awarding of government contracts, wider recruiting efforts, and one of the most highly controversial being college admissions, where they are giving extra points on qualification exams to "disadvantaged groups."
             Affirmative action is a growing argument among our society. It is multifaceted and often defined vaguely. "Some can define it as the ability to strive for equality and diversity, while others might see it as a quota-based system for different minority groups. Is it a helping hand to equalize opportunity or is it reverse discrimination?" (Education Central).
             When affirmative action was first presented to the Supreme Court, it was introduced in the case of The University of California v. Blakke (1978). "In this case, the medical school of the University of California had decided that the best way to increase minority enrollment was to give certain advantages to minority applicants. Each entering class reserved 16 of 100 places for minority groups. When a white man was denied admission, however, having better grades and test scores than the minorities, the case was brought to the Supreme Court, where they decided that racial quotas were illegal but that race could be considered as one of the factors in the admissions decision as long as schools sought to obtain a diverse student body" (Street Law). This case became the legal basis for colleges' affirmative action programs, but has come und...