I think affirmative action is something that is needed. It is still needed for the purpose that it would serve as a guarantee that minorities and women would get a job, if qualified. In tunr giving them a chance to prove that they are just as eligible and deserving of the job as the white male who would have been chosen had affirmative action not been in place. It also serves as a compensation to those descendants whose ancestors fought and had to suffer through so much in order to get minorities and women where they are today.
             When affirmative action is used as a way to promote people that aren't as qualified as another applicant just to fill the required quota, so that it will be governmentally improved, then it further shows that it is another form of discrimination and shouldn't be used. As well as the fact, that getting a job that you earned is undermined because it's thought that the only reason you got it is because you are a woman or a minority, or in my case both. However, when the applicants are both equally qualified the minority or woman shouldn't be surpassed just because of their nationality or gender.
             I think it is often forgotten that affirmative action is supposed to be a supplement to getting a job for the minority or woman. But a thought is that if it's for minorities that in some cases does include the ever majority, white male, for example at a HBCU. The white male would be the minority in a situation like that, so he too should be considered when thinking of including the mnioirty.
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