Running head: Abolish Affirmative Action
            
            
            
             Affirmative Action Should Be Abolished
             Abstract
            
             The term affirmative action encompasses a range of measures aimed at
            
             compensating for past discrimination by increasing the chances that minorities or
            
             women will be chosen for jobs, promotions, admissions, or contracts. The 1964
            
             Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination on the bases of race, color,
            
             religion, sex, or national origin. That law also states it should not be interpreted to
            
             require any employer to grant preferential treatment to any individual or to any
            
             group. Mishkind (1996, p108) States that "the only form of discrimination left is
            
             the kind that operates against white males. There, in the name of redressing
            
             ancient wrongs, white males are routinely shoved aside to make room for less
            
             qualified women and minorities." All forms of discrimination must stop. By
            
             abolishing affirmative action the majority of discrimination will be gone.
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
             The original affirmative action document was developed in 1963 by a young
            
             black lawyer named Hobart Taylor Jr., and two future Supreme Court Justices,
            
             Arthur Goldberg and Abe Fortas. The document was titled Executive Order 10925.
            
             Since 1963 many changes have developed what is currently known as, but not
            
             loved, affirmative action. People realized in 1963 that this document was unjust
            
             and protested to no avail. Now, 34 years later, the protesting continues but the
            
             problem still grows. Affirmative action successfully limits a companies size,
            
             negatively affects the groups of people it was created to help, and discriminates
            
             against other groups of people.
            
             Large companies struggle to maintain affirmative action laws. Many
            
             companies opt to stay small to avoid the cost and headaches affirmative action can
            
             cause...