What Is The Destiny of The Affirmative Action Program?
            
            
             Affirmative Action has long been proposed to be a solution to the injustices that were done to minorities years ago. Originating over thirty years ago in 1964, it allowed minorities easier access to jobs and education that were normally saved for only mostly white Americans. The Affirmative Action program is defined as a series of procedures, steps, programs, and policies designed to overcome the effects of past discrimination on present day minority members (Encyclopedia Americana 241). It has now been many decades since the program's induction into society, and it has made radical changes in the way minorities are treated. We are now living in a more equal society than ever before, but we still have affirmative action. Some people are tired of the program, arguing that it has run its course. Yet others think it is still needed and is still very much an important part of American society. Maybe there is a happy medium that can be met. So today we ask the question: What should be done with the affirmative action program? Reform is the answer.
             This program has always been a very controversial issue, in the area that people are hearing several more complaints of reverse discrimination. Certain groups believe that the program has served its purpose and it is now time to move on. People are tired of hearing minorities telling their stories about how they are not being treated fairly, when the Affirmative
             Action program has already given them an advantage, in certain fields over the majority, by lowering required standards on tests and job
             qualifications. I have learned over the years about the affirmative action program. People are starting to believe that the program is giving the minorities an advantage that is unfair to the majority. Recently there have been many accusations of reverse discrimination. One example of this was in the court case, Adarand C...